Quantum measurement act as a "speech act"

Abstract

I show that the quantum measurement problem can be understood if the measurement is seen as a ``speech act'' in the sense of modern language theory. The reduction of the state vector is in this perspective an intersubjectice -- or better a-subjective -- symbolic process. I then give some perspectives on applications to the ``Mind-Body problem''.

submitted to "Endophysics, Time, Quantum and the Subjective,", R. Buccheri, A.C. Elitzur and M. Saniga (eds.), World Scientific