RE: "Naive Realism" and QM

From: Lee Corbin <lcorbin.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:31:38 -0700

Russel writes

> > why *probabilities* emerge from squared amplitudes, I couldn't
> > tell you. I'm not sure that anyone knows---as I recall, many
> > this is related to the basis problem of the MWI (though
> > Deutsch and others say that decoherence takes care of
> > everything, though).
>
> This is simply the Born rule - I give a derivation of the Born rule in
> my paper "Why Occam's Razor". Some other people on this list have
> asserted prior derivations of the Born rule also, which wouldn't
> overly surprise me as its not that mysterious.

Is it in the part of http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks/docs/occam/occam.html
that begins

    QUANTUM MECHANICS

    In the previous sections, I demonstrate that formal
    mathematical systems are the most compressible, and
    have highest measure amongst all members of the
    Schmidhuber ensemble.

or if not, just where?

Lee
Received on Thu Aug 18 2005 - 00:30:59 PDT

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