Sensible Quantum Mechanics: Are Probabilities only in the Mind?

TL;DR

This paper proposes Sensible Quantum Mechanics, a formulation where probabilities are solely associated with conscious perceptions, challenging traditional quantum probabilities and suggesting they are a mental construct rather than an objective feature.

Contribution

It introduces a new framework, Sensible Quantum Mechanics, where probabilities are derived from conscious perceptions using awareness operators, offering a novel interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Findings

Probabilities are linked to conscious perceptions, not physical systems.

Ratios of measures for perceptions can be interpreted as frequencies.

Traditional quantum probabilities may be considered an aesthemamorphic myth.

Abstract

Quantum mechanics may be formulated as {\it Sensible Quantum Mechanics} (SQM) so that it contains nothing probabilistic except conscious perceptions. Sets of these perceptions can be deterministically realized with measures given by expectation values of positive-operator-valued {\it awareness operators}. Ratios of the measures for these sets of perceptions can be interpreted as frequency-type probabilities for many actually existing sets. These probabilities generally cannot be given by the ordinary quantum ``probabilities'' for a single set of alternatives. {\it Probabilism}, or ascribing probabilities to unconscious aspects of the world, may be seen to be an {\it aesthemamorphic myth}.