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This paper is an in depth implementation of the proposal that the quantummeasurement issue can be resolved by carefully looking at top-down contextualeffects within realistic measurement contexts. The specific setup of themeasurement apparatus determines the possible events that can take place. Theinteraction of local heat baths with a quantum system plays a key role in theprocess. In contrast to the usual attempts to explain quantum measurement bydecoherence, we argue that the heat bath follows unitary time evolution onlyover limited length and time scales and thus leads to localization andstochastic dynamics of quantum particles that interact with it. We showfurthermore that a theory that describes all the steps from the initial arrivalof the quantum particle to the final pointer deflection must use elements fromclassical physics. This proposal also provides a contextual answer to thepuzzle of the origin of the arrow of time when quantum measurements take place:it derives from the cosmological Direction of Time. Overall, our proposal isfor Contextual Wavefunction Collapse (CWC).

Contextual Wavefunction Collapse: An integrated theory of quantum measurement