While decoherence is being sold as an interpretational strategy, it is a physical phenomenon predicted by quantum mechanics and therefore as much in need of an interpretation as quantum mechanics itself. The contextuality of the properties of quantum objects makes it impossible to erect a world such as we experience on the basis of subatomic particles, and the hope of getting both such a world and subatomic particles out of a universal wave function is sillier still.
By the way, I plan to post my latest arXiv piece on Aurocafe itself, after I have finished discussing it with Mermin. (I may make some small changes suggested by him.)
While decoherence is being sold as an interpretational strategy, it is a physical phenomenon predicted by quantum mechanics and therefore as much in need of an interpretation as quantum mechanics itself. The contextuality of the properties of quantum objects makes it impossible to erect a world such as we experience on the basis of subatomic particles, and the hope of getting both such a world and subatomic particles out of a universal wave function is sillier still.
By the way, I plan to post my latest arXiv piece on Aurocafe itself, after I have finished discussing it with Mermin. (I may make some small changes suggested by him.)