Quantum Theory of Probability and Decisions

1999/06/04 by David Deutsch · 1 voice · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1098/rspa.1999.0443

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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