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Sensible Quantum Mechanics: Are Probabilities only in the Mind?

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-06-25 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

Quantum mechanics may be formulated as {\it Sensible Quantum Mechanics} (SQM) so that it contains nothing probabilistic except conscious perceptions. Sets of these perceptions can be deterministically realized with measures given by expectation values of positive-operator-valued {\it awareness operators}. Ratios of the measures for these sets of perceptions can be interpreted as frequency-type probabilities for many actually existing sets. These probabilities generally cannot be given by the ordinary quantum ``probabilities'' for a single set of alternatives. {\it Probabilism}, or ascribing probabilities to unconscious aspects of the world, may be seen to be an {\it aesthemamorphic myth}.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9507024,
  title  = {Sensible Quantum Mechanics: Are Probabilities only in the Mind?},
  author = {Don N. Page},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9507024},
  year   = {2015}
}

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LaTeX, 14 pages, shortened version of quant-ph/9506010

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