Probability and Nonlocality in Many Minds Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics

DOI10.1093/BJPS/54.2.225zbMATH Open1049.81005arXivquant-ph/0112077OpenAlexW2104441073MaRDI QIDQ4453859FDOQ4453859

Authors: Meir Hemmo, Itamar Pitowsky 

Publication date: 7 March 2004

Published in: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We argue that a certain type of many minds (and many worlds) interpretations of quantum mechanics due to Lockwood (and Deutsch) do not provide a coherent interpretation of the quantum mechanical probabilistic algorithm. By contrast, in Albert and Loewer's version of the many minds interpretation there is a coherent interpretation of the quantum mechanical probabilities. We consider Albert and Loewer's probability interpretation in the context of Bell-type and GHZ-type states and argue that it exhibits a certain form of nonlocality which is, however, much weaker than Bell's nonlocality.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0112077

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05)

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