• DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-38987-5_4
• Corpus ID: 118458259

Why QBism Is Not the Copenhagen Interpretation and What John Bell Might Have Thought of It

@article{Mermin2017WhyQI,
  title={Why QBism Is Not the Copenhagen Interpretation and What John Bell Might Have Thought of It},
  author={N. David Mermin},
  journal={arXiv: Quantum Physics},
  year={2017},
  pages={83-93}
}

• N. Mermin
• Published 8 September 2014
• Mathematics, Physics
• arXiv: Quantum Physics

Christopher Fuchs and Rudiger Schack have developed a way of understanding science, which, among other things, resolves many of the conceptual puzzles of quantum mechanics that have vexed people for the past nine decades. They call it QBism. I speculate on how John Bell might have reacted to QBism, and I explain the many ways in which QBism differs importantly from the orthodox ways of thinking about quantum mechanics associated with the term “Copenhagen interpretation.”