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In March 1995, Abner Shimony attended a conference held in honor of the sixtieth anniversary of the famous Einstein—Podolsky—Rosen paper at Technion University in Haifa, Israel. Among the lecturers at the conference was Alain Aspect. In Paris immediately after the conference, Abner had a dream in which Aspect, in a lecture at the conference, posed the problem: is it algorithmically decidable whether a given quantum-mechanical state is entangled or not? Upon returning to the United States, Abner posed the question to me and added: “If not, can we effectively decide whether or not a state is within a of a product state?”
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Myrvold, W.C. (1997). The Decision Problem for Entanglement. In: Cohen, R.S., Horne, M., Stachel, J. (eds) Potentiality, Entanglement and Passion-at-a-Distance. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 194. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2732-7_13
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