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PERIMETER INSTITUTE RECORDED SEMINAR ARCHIVE

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MANY WORLDS AT 50

Organizer(s):   Adrian Kent   David Wallace  

Collection URL: http://pirsa.org/C07025

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Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: Thoughts about actions in an Everett World
Speaker(s): Huw Price
Abstract: The most common objection to the Everett view of QM is that it 'cannot make sense of probability'. The 'Oxford project' of writers such as Deutsch, Wallace, Saunders and Greaves seeks to meet this objection by showing that the Everett view allows some suitable analogue of decision under uncertainty,... read more
Date: 23/09/2007 - 11:40 am
Collection: Many Worlds at 50

The Everettian Evidential Problem
Speaker(s): Wayne Myrvold
Abstract: Much of the evidence for quantum mechanics is statistical in nature. Close agreement between Born-rule probabilities and observed relative frequencies of results in a series of repeated experiments is taken as evidence that quantum mechanics is getting something --- namely, the probabilities of outc... read more
Date: 23/09/2007 - 2:50 pm
Collection: Many Worlds at 50

Solution(?) to the Everettian Evidential Problem
Speaker(s): Hilary Greaves
Abstract: This talk follows on from Wayne Myrvold's (and is based on joint work with Myrvold). I aim (and claim) to provide a unified account of theory confirmation that can deal with the (actual) situation in which we are uncertain whether the true theory is a probabilistic one or a branching-universe one, t... read more
Date: 23/09/2007 - 4:30 pm
Collection: Many Worlds at 50

Panel Discussion (Many Worlds @50)
Speaker(s): Harvey Brown
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Date: 24/09/2007 - 9:30 am
Collection: Many Worlds at 50

13 Quotes from Everettian Papers and Why They Unsettle Me
Speaker(s): Christopher Fuchs
Abstract: 101 years ago William James wrote this about the Hegelian movement in philosophy: 'The absolute mind which they offer us, the mind that makes our universe by thinking it, might, for aught they show us to the contrary, have made any one of a million other universes just as well as this. You can deduc... read more
Date: 24/09/2007 - 11:40 am
Collection: Many Worlds at 50

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