One world is (probably) just as good as many

One world is (probably) just as good as many

Mar 31, 2022·
Jer Steeger
Jer Steeger
Abstract
One of our most sophisticated accounts of objective chance in quantum mechanics involves the Deutsch–Wallace theorem, which uses state-space symmetries to justify agents’ use of the Born rule when the quantum state is known. But Wallace argues that this theorem requires an Everettian approach to measurement. I find that this argument is unsound. I demonstrate a counter-example by applying the Deutsch–Wallace theorem to the de Broglie–Bohm pilot-wave theory.
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Synthese, 200(2)
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Jer Steeger
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British Academy International Fellow
Jer Steeger is a historian and philosopher of physics taking a pluralist approach to issues in quantum foundations and physics education research.