A Guess at the RiddleEssays on the Physical Underpinnings of Quantum Mechanics\nAuthor(s): David Z Albert\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Harvard University Press, United States\nImprint: Harvard University Press\nISBN-13: 9780674304963, 978-0674304963\nSynopsis\nFrom the celebrated author of Quantum Mechanics and Experience comes a provocative (Nature) and deeply important (Mind) attempt at making sense of the strange laws of quantum mechanics.\n\nA century ago, Niels Bohr and a circle of brilliant physicists argued that the search for an objective, realistic, and mechanical picture of the inner workings of the atom was doomed to fail. Today, there is widespread agreement among philosophers and physicists that Bohr and his colleagues were wrong. But the question of what a correct picture might be remains unsettled.\n\nIn A Guess at the Riddle, philosopher David Z Albert offers a possibility. He argues that the strange features of quantum mechanics begin to make sense once we conceive.