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Tightening the Consistency of Quantum Bayesianism

Quantum Bayesianism is an effort to interpret all the probabilities arising in quantum theory (our most accurate physical theory to date, the one ultimately responsible for almost all of modern technology) in terms of the Bayesian conception of probability – that probabilities quantify subjective degrees of belief, rather than objective features of nature.

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Quantum-Bayesian coherence

Christopher A. Fuchs and Rüdiger Schack. 2013. Quantum-Bayesian coherence. Reviews of Modern Physics, 85, 1693-1715

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Physics: QBism puts the scientist back into science

N David Mermin. 2014. Physics: QBism puts the scientist back into science. Nature, 507, 421–423. doi:10.1038/507421a

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