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Guildenstern and Rosencrantz in Quantumland - A Reply to Adrian Kent

arXiv
Authors: Vincent Duhamel, Paul Raymond-Robichaud

Year

2011

Paper ID

29789

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Preprint

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This paper is an answer to the first part of Adrian Kent's One World versus Many : the Inadequacy of Everettian Accounts of Evolution, Probability, and Scientific Confirmation [arXiv:0905.0624]. We take issue with Kent's arguments against many-world interpretations of quantum mechanics. We argue that his reasons for preferring single-world interpretations are logically flawed and that his proposed singleworld alternative to probability theory suffers from conceptual problems. We use a few thought-experiments which show that the problems he raises for probabilities in multiverses also apply in a single universe.

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[1] DOI https://doi.org/arXiv:1111.2563 [2] arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.2563 [3] Publisher https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.2563

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