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    Supports→There are exactly three coherent responses to the quantum measurement problem, whether or not decoherence is included: (1) modify the Schrödinger equation so it breaks down at some scale, (2) supplement quantum mechanics with hidden variables, or (3) give an appropriate interpretation of the superposition (e.g. many-worlds).

    Either the composite system of electron, apparatus, and environment is described by a superposition of distinct outcome states, or it is not.

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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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