Everettian rationality: defending Deutsch's approach to probability in the Everett interpretation

DOI10.1016/S1355-2198(03)00036-4zbMATH Open1222.81090arXivquant-ph/0303050OpenAlexW2143842239WikidataQ56047444 ScholiaQ56047444MaRDI QIDQ720551FDOQ720551

Authors: David Wallace 

Publication date: 17 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)

Abstract: An analysis is made of Deutsch's recent claim to have derived the Born rule from decision-theoretic assumptions. It is argued that Deutsch's proof must be understood in the explicit context of the Everett interpretation, and that in this context, it essentially succeeds. Some comments are made about the criticism of Deutsch's proof by Barnum, Caves, Finkelstein, Fuchs, and Schack; it is argued that the flaw which they point out in the proof does not apply if the Everett interpretation is assumed. A longer version of this paper, entitled "Quantum Probability and Decision Theory, Revisted", is also available online.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0303050

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zbMATH Keywords

decision theoryprobabilityinterpretation of quantum mechanicsEverett interpretation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15)

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