Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1161787 | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics | 2007 | 23 Pages |
Abstract
I outline an argument for a subjective Bayesian interpretation of quantum probabilities as degrees of belief distributed subject to consistency constraints on a quantum rather than a classical event space. I show that the projection postulate of quantum mechanics can be understood as a noncommutative generalization of the classical Bayesian rule for updating an initial probability distribution on new information, and I contrast the Bayesian interpretation of quantum probabilities sketched here with an alternative approach defended by Chris Fuchs.
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Authors
Jeffrey Bub,