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Upon completing my article entitled The Copenhagen Interpretation (Stapp 1972), I sent the manuscript to Heisenberg for his approval or reaction. He expressed general approval, but raised one point:
There is one problem I would like to mention, not in order to criticize the wording of your paper, but for inducing you to more investigation of this special point, which however is a very deep and old philosophical problem. When you speak about the ideas (especially in [section 3.4]) you always speak of human ideas, and the question arises, do these ideas ‘exist’ outside of the human mind or only in the human mind? In other words: have these ideas existed at the time when no human mind existed in the world?
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Stapp, H.P. (2011). Whiteheadian Quantum Ontology. In: Mindful Universe. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18076-7_13
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