On Monday, December 2, 2019 at 5:10:54 AM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > > > Quantum physics has complementaries that are both deterministic and > nondeterministic. As a system of wave mechanics it is completely > deterministic. However, the Fourier components are amplitudes that in polar > form define probabilties for outcomes that occur by stochastic means. So > how one frames QM, either deterministic or nondeterministic, is up to the > choice of the analyst or how one performs an experiment or interprets the > outcomes of an experiment. > > LC >
Q: "So when you say that probability doesn’t exist, you mean that objective probability doesn’t exist." A: "Right, it doesn’t exist as something out in the world without a gambling agent." -- Christopher Fuchs [ https://quantamagazine.org/quantum-bayesianism-explained-by-its-founder-20150604/ ] So there are those who think probabilities don't exist as fundamental, unreducible, objective physical entities out in the world having nothing to do with us, and those that do. I think the former is a kind of religious pining (as William James said). @philipthrift -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/0e67761c-88e7-4d0c-a223-38aa0d9369e0%40googlegroups.com.
