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Agreement and Compatibility in Wigner's Friend Paradox

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Authors: Julio C. F. Silva, B. F. Rizzuti, Cristhiano Duarte

Year

2026

Paper ID

68461

Status

Preprint

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178

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Abstract

There has been an upsurge of interest in the consequences for quantum physics of the so-called Wigner's Friend Paradox. In its original formulation, the paradox has been turned inside out, and virtually every aspect of it has been looked into. Consequently, it is becoming widely accepted that we can find the potentially puzzling consequences of Wigner's thought experiment only in light of its many-parties extensions. Nonetheless, this contribution returns to the source. Reframing the question as an inference problem, we advance a radically Bayesian interpretation that shows no contradiction between Wigner's and Wigner's Friend's descriptions-neither classically nor quantumly. Therefore, with no paradoxical conclusion. In doing so, we flesh out and expose previously untouched aspects of Winger's thought experiment, in particular, the fact that compatibility and agreement are fundamental to our understanding of it. Also, by conservatively extending Wigner's original setup and incorporating what we call the 'benefit of the doubt', we see how either Wigner's or his Friend's description can be driven to match one another's - an impossibility if either agent does not keep an open mind.

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