The inside observer in quantum mechanics

Foundations of Physics 25 (11):1621-1629 (1995)
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The “observer” in physics has always referred to someone who stands on the outside of a system looking in. In this paper an “inside observer” is defined, and an experiment is proposed that tests a given formulation of the problem of measurement in quantum mechanics

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10.1007/bf02055512

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