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No master (key) No (measurement) problem

@article{Hansen2019NoM,
  title={No master (key) No (measurement) problem},
  author={Arne Hansen and Stefan Wolf},
  journal={arXiv: Quantum Physics},
  year={2019}
}
Can normal science-in the Kuhnian sense-add something substantial to the discussion about the measurement problem? Does an extended Wigner's-friend Gedankenexperiment illustrate new issues? Or a new quality of known issues? Are we led to new interpretations, new perspectives, or do we iterate the previously known? The recent debate does, as we argue, neither constitute a turning point in the discussion about the measurement problem nor fundamentally challenge the legitimacy of quantum mechanics… 
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