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> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 02:08:36 +0100
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> From: David Deutsch <david.deutsch.domain.name.hidden>
> Subject: What probability really means
>
> Since people seemed to like that information theory paper, I decided to
> post another one to the quant-ph archive.
>
> Anyone interested in the technical details of how probability
> arises in many-universes quantum theory should read the
> following paper, which is due to appear shortly in Proceedings
> of the Royal Society:
>
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>
> Title: Quantum Theory of Probability and Decisions
> Author: David Deutsch
>
> 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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>
> It is not yet on the server but should appear on
> Mon 7 Jun 99 04:00:00 GMT
>
> >From then on, you can download it in pdf format from
> http://xxx.lanl.gov/pdf/quant-ph/9906015
> (To read pdf you need Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is probably already on
> your computer, but if not, it too can be downloaded from the web.)
>
>
> -- David Deutsch
> http://www.qubit.org/people/david/David.html
Received on Thu Jun 03 1999 - 18:58:40 PDT