Abstract
The quantum theory of measurement and its development are explained. The basis for viewing measurement in quantum mechanics as a genuine physical, rather than psychophysical process or a process that depends on consciousness or the mental, is given and defended against the critiques of Bell and others. The notion of quantum measurement as the actualization of quantum potentiality as grounded in the related versions advocated by Heisenberg and Shimony is explicated in the context of the theory of positive-operator-valued measures. Quantum interference is discussed as a process of interference of quantum potentialities in contradistinction to the interference of some material substance or the interference of probability waves. This provides the basis for a valid realist interpretation of quantum theory.
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