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Letter: Quantum causation

Published 9 October 2013

From Geoff Stanley

Further to George Ellis’s idea that macroscopic effects can have an effect on the microscopic world, reversing the classical bottom-up idea of cause and effect (17 August, p 28). If the superposition of quantum states is only determined by observation, surely this is the ultimate example of top-down causation?
Hereford, UK

Issue no. 2938 published 12 October 2013

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