The universe is deterministic. Quantum Mechanics doesn’t really disagree with this, it’s just not as popular an interpretation as the other ones. Even if deterministic QM interpretations eventually end up being ruled out rigorously, maybe we could someday “poke through” to the underlying substrate, like a video game character figuring out the seed for the RNG that determines their universe.
I agree with you and would even go as far to say that it is the most popular class of interpretations: Everettian and hidden variable theories are both deterministic, and the only interpretations more popular are, when you really get down to it, more like statements of agnosticism than interpretations in their own right.
Strong agree. What requires a larger logical leap: that everything is random and quantum states can propagate instantaneously across any distance regardless of the speed of light and without any theoretical mechanism beyond math, or that time is an illusion and the universe has hidden non-local variables?
No idea how particle physicists can sleep at night just accepting the Copenhagen Hypothesis because the math works and it says not to worry about how.
Not really; as far as science can tell, human behavior comes from brain chemistry/architecture, which is very unlikely to be affected by quantum effects
The universe is deterministic. Quantum Mechanics doesn’t really disagree with this, it’s just not as popular an interpretation as the other ones. Even if deterministic QM interpretations eventually end up being ruled out rigorously, maybe we could someday “poke through” to the underlying substrate, like a video game character figuring out the seed for the RNG that determines their universe.
I agree with you and would even go as far to say that it is the most popular class of interpretations: Everettian and hidden variable theories are both deterministic, and the only interpretations more popular are, when you really get down to it, more like statements of agnosticism than interpretations in their own right.
Strong agree. What requires a larger logical leap: that everything is random and quantum states can propagate instantaneously across any distance regardless of the speed of light and without any theoretical mechanism beyond math, or that time is an illusion and the universe has hidden non-local variables?
No idea how particle physicists can sleep at night just accepting the Copenhagen Hypothesis because the math works and it says not to worry about how.
There’s also superdeterminism.
I don’t really understand QM. At a human level, does this affect free will?
Not really; as far as science can tell, human behavior comes from brain chemistry/architecture, which is very unlikely to be affected by quantum effects
Quantum mechanics is made up because physicist can’t figure out math.
Everything in science is made up, including math. Then it is tested if it passes scrutiny.