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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 13 February 2013 04:45:12PM *  4 points [-]

I once asked a QM person (who shall remain nameless) why people argue about interpretations despite their untestability, and (s)he conjectured that what they are really arguing about is ramifications of these interpretations for "hard problems" (e.g. consciousness) which was an answer that surprised me.

Comment author: [deleted] 13 February 2013 06:04:42PM 2 points [-]

It is written: a physicist does not live on instrumentalism alone.