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In quantum theory, we compute probabilities by squaring the magnitudes of complex probability amplitudes . Though physicists have gotten used to this procedure, it remains puzzling that nature should be constructed such that this way of computing probabilities agrees so perfectly with the empirical facts.
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I am grateful to Chris Fuchs for comments on an earlier draft. This research was supported by the Foundational Questions Institute (grant FQXi-RFP3-1350).
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Wootters, W.K. (2017). Merging Contradictory Laws: Imagining a Constructive Derivation of Quantum Theory. In: Durham, I., Rickles, D. (eds) Information and Interaction. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43760-6_9
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