The finest presentation of the history, conceptual and philosophical issues, experimental basis, and interpretations of quantum mechanics that one is likely to find in print. Beautifully clear in exposition, and disinterestedly fair in presenting the spectrum of interpretations and alternative theories, whether they be tainted with metaphysics as the last bastion of the realist, or they offer little explanatory-satisfaction given the rejection of that role in science by the positivist. De facto, the book to read as a primer to a text.
The only (slightly) negative critique I can make is that, in the discussion of the philosophy of Hume, Leibniz, Kant, Realist vs Positivist [.etc..],... Baggott misses an opportunity to associate Kant's profound epistemology to the non-intuitive nature of QM. Which is to point out that rather than our core concepts [space, time, causality, separability, locality, simultaneity,...] having been derived from experience, they are rather a-priori conditions for [macroscopic] experience to be possible in the first place; they are hard-wired forms of understanding given the nature of mind. Our minds evolved to synthesize macroscopic experience for the understanding,... and therefore is equipped with an artificial conceptual framework, one not consistently compatible with microscopic reality. The act of observation necessarily conforms the otherwise formless underlying reality within our a-priori concepts, ... resulting in inconsistencies, This formless independent underlying reality is objective but unknowable in itself, ....Kant's Noumenon. John von Neumann was correct to place the collapse of the wavefunction in consciousness [mind]. An epistemological explanation to the measurement problem is orders of magnitude more scientific than any unobservable metaphysical one, as the mind in principal can be investigated, while the multi-verse or guiding waves, etc, can not.
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