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Belnap and McCall on Action Theory
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Like Belnap, I base my conception of acting upon branching space-time, with the difference that the resulting indeterministic structure throws light not only on human action, but also on the interpretation of quantum mechanics. The probability of a future event E is represented by the proportion of future branches on which E occurs. But if E is the action of an agent A, how is it that A can deliberately choose to perform E if E is an objectively probabilistic, undetermined event? Like many actions, e.g. walking down a crowded street, playing tennis, etc., deliberating and deciding to do E …

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