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Quantum Theory of Probability and Decisions

David Deutsch

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Abstract

The probabilistic predictions of quantum theory are conventionally obtained from a special probabilistic axiom. But that is unnecessary because all the practical consequences of such predictions follow from the remaining, non-probabilistic, axioms of quantum theory, together with the non-probabilistic part of classical decision theory.

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DOI
doi:10.1098/rspa.1999.0443
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quant-phQuantum Physics

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  1. The Google Willow Thing 1 comment
    • You have to either postulate randomness or describe how it arises from determinism. I don't see any other logical possibility. BTW, see this: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9906015 for a valiant effort to extract randomness from determinism, and this…

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