Uncertainty and probability for branching selves

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2006.02.001zbMATH Open1223.81034OpenAlexW1985635173MaRDI QIDQ643124FDOQ643124

Authors: Peter J. Lewis 

Publication date: 27 October 2011

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2006.02.001

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zbMATH Keywords

uncertaintyprobabilityquantum mechanicsEverettmany worldspersonal identity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Axioms; other general questions in probability (60A05)

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• Quantum theory of probability and decisions
• Understanding Deutsch's probability in a deterministic multiverse
• Everettian rationality: defending Deutsch's approach to probability in the Everett interpretation
• Worlds in the Everett interpretation
• On schizophrenic experiences of the neutron or why we should believe in the many‐worlds interpretation of quantum theory

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