Part of the problem is that there is no single “Copenhagen interpretation” and never really was. “The name ‘Copenhagen interpretation’ has gotten pretty slippery,” said Nina Emery, a philosopher of physics at Mt. Holyoke. “The semantic confusion makes it easy for physicists to avoid dealing with those flaws directly. For instance, when you push them on the idea that measurements cause collapse… they shift and start talking about some kind of Bohrian view or about the [mathematics of the theory]. And if you point out the issues with those views (e.g. who knows what the former is; and the latter
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