It has always been claimed decoherence solves the problem of the preferred-basis for observed probability distributions, but why should this be the case? If there is only one world, and there are probabilities for certain outcomes, why should the basis in which the probabilities are observed coincide with the pointer basis determined dynamically by decoherence?
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