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    Supports→Including decoherence in the quantum mechanical description does not dissolve the measurement problem — the composite system of electron, apparatus, and environment is still left in a superposition of distinct outcome states.

    Decoherence describes interactions in which differently localised states of the apparatus couple to different states of the environment.

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    Indeed, what happens if we include decoherence in the description? Decoherence tells us, among other things, that plenty of interactions are taking place all the time in which differently localised states of the apparatus registering, say, different \(x\)-spin values of an electron couple to different states of the environment. But now, by the same arguments as above, the composite of electron, apparatus and environment will be a superposition of (i) a state corresponding to the environment coup

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