Probability and Nonlocality in Many Minds Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics
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Probability and Nonlocality in Many Minds Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics
We argue that a certain type of many minds (and many worlds) interpretations of quantum mechanics due to Lockwood (and Deutsch) do not provide a coherent interpretation of the quantum mechanical probabilistic algorithm. By contrast, in Albert and Loewer’s version of the many minds interpretation there is a coherent interpretation of the quantum mechanical probabilities. We consider Albert and L...
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عنوان ژورنال: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0007-0882,1464-3537
DOI: 10.1093/bjps/54.2.225