PERIMETER INSTITUTE RECORDED SEMINAR ARCHIVE
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Subjective Probability and Many Worlds Speaker(s): Ruediger Schack
Abstract: Probability is often regarded as a problem for the many-worlds interpretation: if all branches of the splitting wavefunction are equally real, what sense does it make to say that the branches have different probabilities? In the decision-theoretic approach due to Deutsch and Wallace, probabilities acquire a meaning through the preferences of a rational agent. This talk reviews the decision-theoretic approach to probability in classical physics and quantum mechanics and shows that its application to the many-world interpretation creates a new difficulty for the latter.
Date: 22/09/2007 - 10:00 am
Collection: Many Worlds at 50
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