Making sense of Born's rule with the many-minds interpretation
arXiv:2011.11501 · doi:10.1007/s40509-021-00247-9
Abstract
This work is an attempt to justify Born's rule within the framework of the many-minds interpretation seen as a development of the many-worlds interpretation of Everett. More precisely, here we develop a unitary model of many-minds based on the work of Albert and Loewer (Synthese \textbf{77}, 195 (1988)). At the difference of previous models ours is not genuinely stochastic and dualistic and also involves some classical-like randomness concerning the initial conditions of the Universe. We also compare the present method for recovering Born's rule with previous works based on decision theory \emph{à la }Deutsch, Wallace, and envariance \emph{à la} Zurek and show how these approaches are connected to our model
arXiv commentThis is the final version more focused on the many-minds theory of Albert and Loewer and envariance à la Zurek
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