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Why I am not a QBist

Quantum Physics 2015-08-17 v2 History and Philosophy of Physics

Abstract

Quantum Bayesianism, or QBism, is a recent development of the epistemic view of quantum states, according to which the state vector represents knowledge about a quantum system, rather than the true state of the system. QBism explicitly adopts the subjective view of probability, wherein probability assignments express an agent's personal degrees of belief about an event. QBists claim that most if not all conceptual problems of quantum mechanics vanish if we simply take a proper epistemic and probabilistic perspective. Although this judgement is largely subjective and logically consistent, I explain why I do not share it.

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@article{arxiv.1403.1146,
  title  = {Why I am not a QBist},
  author = {Louis Marchildon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.1146},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Added remarks and clarifications; forthcoming in Foundations of Physics

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