Quantum probabilities as degrees of belief |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK;2. Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Tilburg University, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands;1. The Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark;2. IMAPP, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;3. Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, B. Cheremushkinskaya 25, 117218 Moscow, Russia;1. Departamento de Zoologia e Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Cristóvão Colombo, 2265, 15054-000 São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil;2. Center for Brain, Behavior and Cognition, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, United States;3. Centro de Aquicultura da UNESP, Brazil;1. Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA;2. Department of General Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Boston Hospital and Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA;3. Surgery Center for Outcomes Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA;4. Surgeons OverSeas, New York, NY, USA;5. Center for Humanitarian Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA;6. Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA;1. Department of Computer Science, Loughborough University, UK;2. Department of Computer Science, Kiel University, Germany;1. Agora for Biosystems, SE-193 22 Sigtuna, Sweden;2. Biometry and Systems Analysis Group, Department of Energy and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden |
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| 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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