{
  "id": "1403.7119",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2014-03-27T16:30:46.000Z",
  "updated": "2014-03-27T16:30:46.000Z",
  "title": "Is the Born Rule Anthropically Determined?",
  "authors": [
    "Michael B. Weissman"
  ],
  "comment": "Short- only 10,000 characters. And it meets the Bohr criterion for QM- crazy enough. Comments are very welcome",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "I argue that various derivations of the Born probability rule within strictly unitary quantum mechanics implicitly use anthropic constraints on the properties of the probabilities, but without proposing an ensemble from which those constraints limit a selection. An argument by Mallah obtains the Born probabilities explicitly for standard unitary dynamics but via postulating a hypothetical extra noise-like component of the quantum state. I argue that the implicit anthropic constraints required for well-behaved probability rules would select for a state of the sort Mallah proposes.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2014-03-27T16:30:46.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "born rule",
      "born probability rule",
      "implicit anthropic constraints",
      "strictly unitary quantum mechanics"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2014arXiv1403.7119W"
    }
  }
}