6 papers
The Distribution Postulate in Algorithmic Bohmian Mechanics
Jeffrey A. Barrett, Eddy Keming Chen, Josiah Lopez-Wild
In order to make the right empirical predictions Bohmian mechanics requires a special statistical boundary condition -- the distribution postulate -- but it is unclear how best to…
Typical Quantum States of the Universe are Observationally Indistinguishable
Eddy Keming Chen, Roderich Tumulka
We establish three impossibility results regarding our knowledge of the quantum state of the universe. Suppose the universal quantum state is a typical unit vector in a high-dimens…
Algorithmic Randomness, Exchangeability, and the Principal Principle
Jeffrey A. Barrett, Eddy Keming Chen
We introduce a framework uniting algorithmic randomness with exchangeable credences to address foundational questions in philosophy of probability and philosophy of science. To dem…
Algorithmic Randomness and Probabilistic Laws
Jeffrey A. Barrett, Eddy Keming Chen
We apply recent ideas about complexity and randomness to the philosophy of laws and chances. We develop two ways to use algorithmic randomness to characterize probabilistic laws of…
Decoherence, Branching, and the Born Rule in a Mixed-State Everettian Multiverse
Eugene Y. S. Chua, Eddy Keming Chen
In Everettian quantum mechanics, justifications for the Born rule appeal to self-locating uncertainty or decision theory. Such justifications have focused exclusively on a pure-sta…
The Simplicity of Physical Laws
Eddy Keming Chen
Physical laws are strikingly simple, yet there is no a priori reason for them to be so. I propose that nomic realists -- Humeans and non-Humeans -- should recognize simplicity as a…