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by fineline
1927 days ago
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I read this article more because I'm interested in Zen than QM. But it prompted a question for me. What (if any) is the relationship between QM (which I understand to manifest mainly at the level of particles and very small scales) and the science of complex non-linear dynamic systems (colloquially "chaos theory"). Both centre around the philosophical concept of unknowability, unpredictability, uncertainty. Both prompt questions around why the world is the way it is, rather than any of the other states it could have ended up in, which leads to wondering about whether alternate states could, or should, also exist. I personally find complexity more approachable, as it concerns phenomena that are at a more relatable scale - the weather, the economy, species evolution etc. Is there any intersection between QM and complex systems science in the conventional/institutional sense, e.g. in study or research? Or are they separate rabbit holes? |
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There's an interpretation of QM called hidden variables theory that essentially states that the probabilistic nature of quantum behaviour is due to QM being emergent behaviour from lower variables that we haven't discerned. It isn't in vogue, but it fits a systems perspective perfectly. Through this lens QM is a dynamical system, though perhaps not chaotic (I'm still not sure as to the boundary between dynamical and chaotic behaviour given both imply complex nonlinear causality).
But then, a big issue with QM is that it's unintuitive, so that's probably confirmation bias on my part.