Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1161663 | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics | 2007 | 17 Pages |
Abstract
The decision-theoretic account of probability in the Everett or many-worlds interpretation, advanced by David Deutsch and David Wallace, is shown to be circular. Talk of probability in Everett presumes the existence of a preferred basis to identify measurement outcomes for the probabilities to range over. But the existence of a preferred basis can only be established by the process of decoherence, which is itself probabilistic.
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Authors
David J. Baker,