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The single-mind and many-minds versions of quantum mechanics

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There is a long tradition of trying to find a satisfactory interpretation of Everett's relative-state formulation of quantum mechanics. Albert and Loewer recently described two new ways of reading Everett: one we will call the single-mind theory and the other the many-minds theory. I will briefly describe these theories and present some of their merits and problems. Since both are no-collapse theories, a significant merit is that they can take advantage of certain properties of the linear dynamics, which Everett apparently considered to be important, to constrain their statistical laws.

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Barrett, J.A. The single-mind and many-minds versions of quantum mechanics. Erkenntnis 42, 89–105 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01666813

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