Well, even if it turns out that there’re special properties of our physics that are required to produce the Born rule, I’d say that mystery would be a different, well, kind of mystery. Right now it’s a bit of “wtf? where is this bizzaro subjective nonlinearity etc coming from? and it seems like something ‘extra’ tacked onto the physics”
If we could reduce that to “these specific physical laws give rise to it”, then even though we’d still have “why these laws and not others”, it would, in my view, be an improvement over the situation in which we seem to have an additional law that seems almost impossible to even meaningfully phrase without invoking subjective experience.
I do agree though that given the special properties of the rule, any special properties in the underlying physics that are needed to give rise to the rule should be in some sense “non arbitrary”… that is, should look like, well, like a nonaribitrarily selected physical rule.
Well, even if it turns out that there’re special properties of our physics that are required to produce the Born rule, I’d say that mystery would be a different, well, kind of mystery. Right now it’s a bit of “wtf? where is this bizzaro subjective nonlinearity etc coming from? and it seems like something ‘extra’ tacked onto the physics”
If we could reduce that to “these specific physical laws give rise to it”, then even though we’d still have “why these laws and not others”, it would, in my view, be an improvement over the situation in which we seem to have an additional law that seems almost impossible to even meaningfully phrase without invoking subjective experience.
I do agree though that given the special properties of the rule, any special properties in the underlying physics that are needed to give rise to the rule should be in some sense “non arbitrary”… that is, should look like, well, like a nonaribitrarily selected physical rule.