 The quantum formalism for interacting systems describes how a measurement on Albert’s system reduces the composite state and distributes quantum states and associated probabilities to the component systems. Here Bohr redescribes that formal reduction using EPR’s language of influences and reality. He turns ordinary local measurements into “influences” that automatically change physical reality elsewhere, and at any distance whatsoever. This grounds the quantum formalism in a rather magical ontological framework, a move quite out of character for the usually pragmatic Bohr. In his correspondence over EPR, Schrödinger compared ideas like that to ritual magic. 