Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Foreword......Page 23
Introduction to the Cambridge University Press Edition......Page 25
Introduction to the Original ArXiv.org Posting......Page 52
Acknowledgements......Page 53
27 July 1996, "Life on Long Island''......Page 57
03 August 1996, "Lonely Jazz''......Page 59
17 August 1996, "More Meaning''......Page 60
02 March 1998, "Long Finicky Flight''......Page 61
17 May 1998, "The Electronic Itch''......Page 63
14 August 1999, "Rampant Repine''......Page 64
28 July 2000, "The Role of Registered Phenomena''......Page 65
29 September 1997, "Quantum Information Questions''......Page 66
02 October 1997, "Next Round''......Page 70
06 October 1997, "49th Parallel''......Page 75
17 June 1999, "So Slow''......Page 76
18 August 1999, "Modalities''......Page 77
30 August 1999, "It's All About Schmoz''......Page 78
05 September 1999, "New Schmoz Cola''......Page 80
Paul's Reply......Page 84
Paul's Reply......Page 85
Paul's Reply......Page 86
10 June 1999, "Definitive List?''......Page 87
19 March 2000, "Probability Validation''......Page 89
20 March 2000, "Small Addendum''......Page 90
20 October 2000, "Not Instructions, but Information''......Page 91
The Day I Was Worth 30 Pounds......Page 94
07 December 1998, and to the other teleporters, "Swedish Bikini Team''......Page 95
10 December 1998, "More Swedish Bikini Team''......Page 96
10 December 1998, "500 Swedish Irregular Verbs''......Page 97
05 June 1999, "Emma Jane''......Page 98
27 November 2000, "An Emoticon''......Page 99
17 February 1997, "Prophetic Herberts''......Page 100
27 March 1997, "Consistent Herb''......Page 101
29 March 1997, "More Reality''......Page 102
07 April 1997, "Howling Quanta''......Page 103
05 June 1997, "Dreams of a More Ethereal Quantum''......Page 104
04 August 1997, "The Nielsbohricon''......Page 105
12 October 1997, "Reality as Realty''......Page 106
28 November 1997, "Muddling Through Reality''......Page 107
10 December 1997, "List of Sins''......Page 108
04 January 1998, "Bohr, Bayesians, and Bernsteins''......Page 109
14 January 1998, "Quote-A-Day''......Page 110
29 March 1998, "Philosophical Purgation''......Page 111
02 January 1999, and to Greg Comer, "A New Year's Toast''......Page 112
03 January 1999, "Mary and Banville''......Page 114
08 May 1999, "A Fleck of Quantization''......Page 115
A Few of Fleck's Thoughts (with Annotation)......Page 117
The Denkkollektiv and the Quantum......Page 126
22 May 1999, "Reality in Lottery''......Page 127
02 August 1999, "Epiphenomena Chez Dyer''......Page 128
17 August 1999, "A Bernstein Off the Earth?''......Page 132
14 September 1999, "A Fleck of Fleck''......Page 133
01 September 2000, "The Allure of Texas''......Page 134
26 October 2000, "Activating or Catalyzing?''......Page 135
29 November 2000, "Anecdote''......Page 136
28 August 1999, "Not Much''......Page 137
06 September 1999, "Labor Day Lounging''......Page 138
05 November 1999, "Setting the Initial Condition''......Page 139
21 March 2000, "You Might Enjoy''......Page 142
15 April 2000, "Pierce Cringes''......Page 143
Doug's Reply......Page 144
31 August 1999, "Subliminal Messages''......Page 146
23 January 2000, "I See Why Bit Commitment!''......Page 147
22 March 2000, "It from Bit''......Page 148
15 May 2000, "Problem Set Based on Information–Disturbance Foundation Quest''......Page 149
A. Some Concrete Problems......Page 150
B. Some Not-So Concrete Problems......Page 157
17 June 2000, and to Montréal Meeting participants, "Memories of Montréal''......Page 158
26 July 2000, "Interaction without Interactoids?''......Page 160
03 April 2000, "Foundations in the Light of Information''......Page 161
30 September 2000, "Commit the Bit!''......Page 162
Jeff's Reply......Page 164
30 October 2000, "Curiosity''......Page 165
10 December 2000, "The Oyster and the Quantum''......Page 166
14 January 2001, "Barnum and KS''......Page 170
18 January 2001, "The Short Answer''......Page 171
08 April 1996, "Hartle/Coleman Comments''......Page 173
12 April 1996, "Fopping Math''......Page 178
15 April 1996, "No More Math''......Page 181
Carl's Replies......Page 182
The Structure of Quantum Information......Page 183
II. Research Proposal......Page 184
III. Wider Seas......Page 187
V. References......Page 189
20 September 1998, "Dropping In''......Page 193
Carl's Reply......Page 194
02 March 1999, "Caves History''......Page 195
10 June 1999, "Gleasonization''......Page 196
10 September 1999, "The Dangers of Probabilismo''......Page 197
23 September 1999, "The Ontological Rip Tide''......Page 198
24 March 2000, "Title and Abstract?''......Page 199
Carl's Preply......Page 200
13 November 2000, "Bush vs. Bohr''......Page 204
26 February 2001, "Death of a Salesman''......Page 205
14 February 1995, "Turtle Wax''......Page 206
07 March 1995, "Please, Please No More!''......Page 207
27 January 1996, "Philo''......Page 208
20 February 1996, "The Mont-Royal Sweats''......Page 209
27 February 1996, "Kant Cola''......Page 210
06 March 1996, "Rub Me''......Page 211
01 April 1996, "Puppy Scoops''......Page 212
19 July 1996, "Old Moods''......Page 213
16 August 1996, "Hot Pavement and Slushy QM''......Page 214
01 September 1996, and to David Baker, "The Iconostasis''......Page 215
31 May 1997, "Long Day''......Page 216
09 June 1997, "Dictionaries and Their Problems''......Page 217
23 September 1997, "Airy Nothing''......Page 218
19 November 1997, "Poesy of the Quantum''......Page 219
04 January 1998, "Lazy Weekend''......Page 220
19 January 1998, "Happy Quotes''......Page 221
07 February 1998, "Getting Nerves''......Page 223
31 March 1998, "What a Lunchtime Bohr''......Page 224
27 May 1998, "My Head, My Head''......Page 225
28 July 1998, "Macaroni''......Page 226
09 October 1998, "Billiards and the Eight''......Page 227
17 November 1998, "Heresy!''......Page 228
11 April 1999, "One I Like''......Page 229
22 April 1999, "Fuchsian Genesis''......Page 230
27 June 1999, "Raining Down in Cambridge''......Page 231
28 August 1999, "No Podunks Here''......Page 232
17 December 1999, "Trinity''......Page 233
23 January 2000, "Darling Quotes''......Page 234
07 February 2000, "The Fine Line''......Page 235
25 June 2000, "Waxing Surfboards''......Page 236
10 August 2000, "Heavy Information''......Page 237
18 September 2000, "A Non-Randy Non-Bugger''......Page 238
06 October 2000, "The Evolution of Thought''......Page 240
14 October 2000, "On the Mark''......Page 241
16 October 2000, "More Linearity''......Page 242
29 October 2000, "Poincaré Singularities''......Page 243
15 January 2001, "Good Turns of Phrase''......Page 244
21 August 1999, "One More Article?''......Page 246
09 June 2000, "Another Request''......Page 247
07 February 2001, "Heartfelt Thanks''......Page 248
16 February 2001, "Is It Complete?''......Page 249
09 March 2001, "The Right Choice''......Page 250
14 March 2001, "The Archive Again''......Page 252
10 February 1997, "Sunday Afternoons and Consistent Histories''......Page 254
30 August 1998, "Desiderata''......Page 261
02 September 1998, "Vague and Vagary''......Page 262
20 January 1999, "Clarity''......Page 263
03 February 1999, "Noumenal Mental Atoms''......Page 264
05 February 2001, "The Eerie Parallel''......Page 265
Rolf's Reply......Page 266
06 July 1998, "Evolution and Physics''......Page 267
Rolf's Reply......Page 268
Rolf's Reply......Page 269
05 October 1998, "Oh Magic Eight Ball''......Page 271
01 July 2000, "Destinkifiers''......Page 272
18 September 1996, "Theorem II''......Page 273
10 December 1997, "Deconstructing Ithaca''......Page 274
14 December 1997, "An Idle Thought''......Page 275
A. My Outlook......Page 276
I. Immediate Goulash......Page 277
II. Big Bowls of Goulash......Page 279
07 January 1998, "Cloud-Cuckoo-Land''......Page 287
15 January 1998, "Buttered Toast''......Page 289
15 February 1998, "Landau, Lifshitz, Correlata, and Pauli''......Page 291
29 March 1998, "Ithacan Monadology''......Page 292
17 April 1998, "References''......Page 293
17 April 1998, "How Do I Sleep?''......Page 294
20 April 1998, "Socrates and Rosenfeld''......Page 295
07 May 1998, "A Rug and A Sweep''......Page 296
08 May 1998, "A Bug in the Soup''......Page 297
04 September 1998, "The Bohrazine Shuffle''......Page 298
08 September 1998, "I'll Bohr You to Tears''......Page 300
09 September 1998, "Unbohrlievable!''......Page 306
08 October 1998, "Oh Mighty Mermin''......Page 307
David's Reply......Page 308
13 December 1998, and to several others, "I Whig-ed Out''......Page 309
David's Reply......Page 310
17 January 1999, "My Homework''......Page 311
28 January 1999, "The Propaganda Cocktail''......Page 312
08 June 1999, "I'm Not Alone''......Page 313
15 October 1999, "More In Transit''......Page 314
16 December 1999, "Peierls and Commutivity''......Page 315
17 December 1999, "Reality of the Symbol''......Page 316
26 January 2000, "Note #2 – Foundations in Montréal''......Page 317
23 March 2000, "Can You Complete This?''......Page 318
05 April 2000, "Commutivity''......Page 319
05 April 2000, "Pauli Understood Entanglement''......Page 320
20 July 2000, "Zing!''......Page 321
23 July 2000, "Great Garrett Quote''......Page 323
12 October 2000, "Turning Heads … At Least One''......Page 327
David's Second Reply......Page 328
26 April 2001, "Fire of the Soul''......Page 329
11 May 1999, "SD and KS'' and ``Even More Relevant''......Page 330
13 November 1999, "A Couple More Things''......Page 331
22 August 1996, "Plagiarists''......Page 332
10 March 1999, "Schnockerization''......Page 333
18 March 1996, "The Commitments''......Page 335
01 April 1996, "Mo' Better Sophistry''......Page 337
16 May 1999, "Purifications''......Page 338
23 August 1999, "A Convergence of Sorts''......Page 339
14 July 2000, "Quantum Theory Does Need an Interpretation''......Page 341
09 August 2000, "Big Red Xs''......Page 342
05 June 1997, "Painting My Stripes''......Page 343
17 October 1997, "Energy … Really''......Page 344
Harsh Criticisms......Page 345
Foods for Thought [sic]......Page 346
22 October 1997, "Honesty''......Page 355
15 December 1997, "Hay–Peres Comments''......Page 356
05 April 1998, "Other Things''......Page 357
01 December 1998, "Here Comes the Judge''......Page 358
16 December 1998, "Nonlinear CPMs''......Page 365
26 December 1998, "The Deep Intervention''......Page 366
08 April 1999, "Delayed Entanglement''......Page 367
10 April 1999, "My Turn''......Page 368
19 May 1999, "I Finally Decohere''......Page 369
02 June 1999, "9906006''......Page 371
23 September 1999, "End of the Day''......Page 372
24 September 1999, "More Peierls''......Page 373
27 September 1999, "contra-Koopman''......Page 374
19 December 1999, "State of Confusion''......Page 375
09 January 2000, "KS Cryptoland''......Page 376
09 March 2000, "Petra''......Page 377
07 April 2000, "Why Fidelity?''......Page 378
24 April 2000, "Fuzzy Cats''......Page 379
24 August 2000, "Expenses, Reimbursements, and Memories''......Page 380
01 November 2000, "Catching Up''......Page 381
Introduction......Page 382
A. Quantum Theory Needs No 'Interpretation'......Page 383
B. Quantum Theory – Interpretation, Formulation, Inspiration......Page 386
References......Page 388
29 September 1999, "The Next Move''......Page 389
01 October 1999, "We Are Converging''......Page 390
03 November 1999, "Explanation of My Absence''......Page 391
07 November 1999, "A Sunday the Way I Like to Spend It''......Page 392
13 November 1999, "Putting the Finger''......Page 393
15 November 1999, "Have a Good Trip''......Page 395
Parsing the Paper......Page 396
21 November 1999, "Miracles of Office Technology''......Page 398
22 November 1999, "A Baby Kicks?''......Page 401
Parsing the Paper......Page 402
23 November 1999, "Airport Time''......Page 407
Parsing the Paper......Page 408
07 December 1999, "Took Care of Bureaucracy''......Page 411
12 December 1999, "Thinking It's a Toddler''......Page 412
Parsing the Paper......Page 413
Parsing the Paper......Page 416
14 December 1999, "Lost Toddlers''......Page 418
Parsing the Paper......Page 419
15 December 1999, "One Last Stumble''......Page 423
15 December 1999, "Detailed Commentary''......Page 424
16 December 1999, "Our Baby Leaves Home''......Page 427
01 February 2000, "Us vs. Them''......Page 428
04 February 2000, "Running in Circles''......Page 434
04 February 2000, "Oops''......Page 435
05 February 2000, "Only Trouble Spot''......Page 438
08 February 2000, "Copyright Sent''......Page 440
10 May 2000, 9:19 AM, "Alive and Well''......Page 441
11 July 2000, "It's a Boy!''......Page 442
12 July 2000, "What Muck!''......Page 443
13 July 2000, "Sunny Day Apology''......Page 444
Parsing the Paper......Page 445
16 July 2000, "Getting Slow Start''......Page 446
16 July 2000, "A Little Progress''......Page 447
Parsing the Paper......Page 448
21 July 2000, "God, etc.''......Page 449
21 July 2000, "24 Changes''......Page 450
18 November 1997, "The Radical Eye''......Page 451
02 December 1997, "Flying Equations''......Page 452
06 April 1999, "Round 1''......Page 453
01 September 1999, "Flushing Fuchses''......Page 454
07 September 1999, "Two Rabbis in a Bar''......Page 455
08 September 1999, "Smug Note''......Page 457
10 September 1999, "Meeker Note''......Page 460
10 October 2000, "Sneak Previews''......Page 462
11 December 2000, "New Ideas and Old Men''......Page 465
11 April 2001, "Piggybacking Philosophy on Physics''......Page 467
17 February 2000, "The Quantum View''......Page 469
19 December 2000, "Myopic Readers''......Page 471
24 March 2001, "For Other Myopic Readers''......Page 472
Rüdiger's First Reply: 19 September 1996......Page 474
Rüdiger's Fourth Reply: 4 May 2001......Page 475
15 October 1996, "Mechanica Quantica''......Page 476
09 August 1997, "Correspondentia''......Page 477
29 September 1997, "The Hidden Hand''......Page 483
06 October 1997, "Germinal Jewel''......Page 486
12 October 1997, "The Deep End''......Page 487
21 November 1997, "Deadbeats for Quantum Reality''......Page 488
Rüdiger's First Reply......Page 489
Rüdiger's Second Reply......Page 492
23 March 1998, "Frightening Depths''......Page 493
22 April 1998, "Infinite Patience''......Page 494
24 April 1998, "Groping and Moping''......Page 495
27 April 1998, "Fenomeno Aleatorio''......Page 496
30 April 1998, "One Stone Unturned''......Page 498
21 January 1999, "Stupendous Literature Man''......Page 503
25 January 1999, "Oh Hibernia''......Page 505
25 January 1999, and to Carl Caves, "Oh Hernia''......Page 506
01 August 1999, and to Carl Caves, "Recording the Vague''......Page 507
29 August 1999, and to Carl Caves, "Penrose Tiles''......Page 509
22 September 1999, "Andrei''......Page 515
03 September 2000, "One Sentence?''......Page 516
05 April 2001, "Waking in the Hundred Acre Wood''......Page 517
23 February 2000, "OK''......Page 518
20 March 2000, "Ontology''......Page 520
20 March 2000, "The Blank''......Page 521
25 August 2000, "Start of the Day''......Page 522
20 January 2001, "Nonontology''......Page 523
04 April 2001, "Using Shannon to Build on Bohr''......Page 524
Jon's Reply......Page 525
11 May 1999, "Nails and Heads''......Page 526
Jon's Reply......Page 528
21 July 1998, "Quantum Giggles''......Page 529
30 August 1998, "Oh So Close''......Page 530
14 November 1998, "Magic Eight Ball''......Page 531
02 January 1999, "The Holidays''......Page 532
24 May 1999, "The Consequence of Indeterminism''......Page 533
23 July 1999, "Autumn Leaves''......Page 534
Bill's Reply......Page 535
20 August 1999, "Echoes''......Page 536
30 September 1999, "Your Dog''......Page 537
13 February 2000, "Zteiner''......Page 538
Anton's Reply......Page 539
20 July 2000, "Our Mutual Interest''......Page 540
11 April 1996, to Michiel van Lambalgen, "Thesis''......Page 541
15 April 1996, to Michiel van Lambalgen, "Getting Started''......Page 542
19 July 1996, to Sam Braunstein, "The Prior''......Page 543
29 July 1997, to Ken Alder, "Rosenthal Thesis''......Page 544
16 October 1997, to Lucien Hardy, "Wispy Words''......Page 547
10 October 1997, to Eli Yablonovitch, "Entanglement and Correlation''......Page 548
16 October 1997, to Glenn Starkman, "Michelson Lecture Proposal''......Page 549
22 January 1998, to Alan Hájek, "Bohr was a Bayesian?''......Page 552
05 May 1998, to Ronald Giere, "Quantum Propensity & Quote''......Page 553
05 May 1998, to Ronald Giere, "Propensity Stuff''......Page 554
16 August 1998, to Adán Cabello, "Mermin and His Correlata''......Page 555
19 August 1998, to Richard Cleve, "The Word Entanglement''......Page 556
01 October 1998, to Richard Beyler, "More Pauli''......Page 558
19 October 1998, to John B. Kennedy, "Tensor Products''......Page 559
28 October 1998, to Charles Seife, "Yeeks!''......Page 560
03 November 1998, to Daniel Gottesman, "The Bill Wootters Fan-Club Page''......Page 561
27 November 1998, to Tim Ralph, "Quantum Teleportation: A QND View?''......Page 565
Quantum Sensitivity and Control......Page 570
08 June 1999, to Todd Brun, "Information Theoretic Entanglement''......Page 572
03 August 1999, to Alan Fowler, "Landauer Memorial''......Page 573
23 August 1999, to Sylvan Schweber, "Living with Law without Law''......Page 574
24 August 1999, to Dominik Janzing, "Bopp Stuff''......Page 575
27 July 2000, to Robert Garisto, "The Zing of Empty Space''......Page 576
14 November 2000, to Steven van Enk, "Always One Theory Behind''......Page 577
18 January 2001, to Max Tegmark, "100 Years of the Quantum''......Page 578
20 January 2001, to John Smolin, "Shannon Meets Bohr''......Page 584
26 January 2001, to Jeremy Butterfield, "Worlds in the Everett Interpretation''......Page 585
27 January 2001, to David Wallace, "The Test Particle''......Page 586
27 February 2001, to Växjö Meeting participants, "Claude Elwood Shannon''......Page 587
16 May 2000, "History Reduced to Eight Pages''......Page 588
Index of Names......Page 590
