Russell Standish writes: > I was not aware of the Born rule having been derived multiple times > (although I'm not too suprised if that is the case). Do you have any > references? The Born rule is one of the things I derive in my "Why > Occam's paper".
I just have a couple of recent references, but both of them point to several earlier ones, including of course Everett's original work. One is David Deutsch's attempt to use decision theory, http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9906015 . This paper has been widely criticized; one defense of it is at http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0312157 . See also Robin Hanson's two papers on his "mangled worlds" concept, http://hanson.gmu.edu/mangledworlds.html . Hal Finney
