QBism, the Perimeter of Quantum Bayesianism
@article{Fuchs2010QBismTP, title={QBism, the Perimeter of Quantum Bayesianism}, author={Christopher A. Fuchs}, journal={arXiv: Quantum Physics}, year={2010} }
This article summarizes the Quantum Bayesian point of view of quantum mechanics, with special emphasis on the view's outer edges---dubbed QBism. QBism has its roots in personalist Bayesian probability theory, is crucially dependent upon the tools of quantum information theory, and most recently, has set out to investigate whether the physical world might be of a type sketched by some false-started philosophies of 100 years ago (pragmatism, pluralism, nonreductionism, and meliorism). Beyond…
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