This should be of interest to the everything-listers too. Brent Meeker
-------- Original Message -------- I was browsing around arxiv and came across the following paper by Alastair Rae: http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.2657 "During the last ten years or so, derivations of the Born rule based on decision theory have been proposed and developed, and it is claimed that these are valid in the context of the Everett interpretation. This claim is critically assessed and it is shown that one of its key assumptions, although natural in the context of the Copenhagen interpretation, is not consistent with that of Everett. It is further argued that any interpretation that relates outcome likelihood to the expansion coefficients connecting the wavefunction with the eigenfunctions of the measurement operator must be inconsistent with the Everett interpretation." I think he makes some good points. I have always felt that the attempts by Deutsch and Wallace to get the Born rule out of Everett and game theory was akin to lifting oneself out of the soup by one's bootlaces. Bruce --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---