Decoherence, relative states, and evolutionary adaptation
@article{Saunders1993DecoherenceRS, title={Decoherence, relative states, and evolutionary adaptation}, author={S. Saunders}, journal={Foundations of Physics}, year={1993}, volume={23}, pages={1553-1585} }
We review the decoherent histories approach to the interpretation of quantum mechanics. The Everett relative-state theory is reformulated in terms of decoherent histories. A model of evolutionary adaptation is shown to imply decoherence. A general interpretative framework is proposed: probability and value-definiteness are to have a similar status to the attribution of tense in classical spacetime theory.Â
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