ON THE NATURE OF EXPERIENCE IN THE BARE THEORY

Quantum mechanics without the collapse postulate, the bare theory, was proposed by Albert (1992) as a way of understanding Everett's relativ e-state formulation of quantum mechanics. The basic idea is to try to account for an observer's beliefs by appealing to a type of illusion p redicted by the bare theory. This paper responds to some recent object ions to the bare theory by providing a more detailed description of th e sense in which it can and the sense in which it cannot account for o ur experience.