On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:45:02PM -0800, meekerdb wrote: > > Quantum bayesianism explains collapse as a mental event. It's quite > consistent with Bruno's idea of reversing psychology and physics > since it makes physics just a way of predicting experience.
I remember thinking how familiar and similar QB is to my own QM interpretation outlined in Theory of Nothing when I read an article on it in New Scientist. In the article, David Mermin was listed as being one of the chief proponents of QB. I thought that funny, as I knew David Mermin is familiar with my work, and given the dates involved, wondered if I had had any causal influence on this theory. I see from Wikipedia that Mermin is hardly mentioned, and that instead Caves, Fuchs and Schack (2002) is described as being the primary motivation. My original paper (Why Occams Razor), though written in 1999, didn't appear in print until 2004. Mind you, I have not looked into it in sufficient detail to work out what the differences really are between QB and my interpretation (which doesn't have a snappy name, alas). -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
