[strainer]

You seem to claim that quantum mechanics can/does in fact model chaotic behavior, only that such chaotic behavior is "not actually real" in ways. That claim would seem to contradict Hossenfelders message, she seems to claim quantum mechanics can't model chaotic systems -however "actually extant" they may or may not be. I just don't know, but I prefer to consider claims of hidden agendas after theoretic details are resolved, if at all.

[lisper]

The issue is quite simple at its root: the Schroedinger equation is linear, and linear systems can't produce chaotic behavior, so the existence of chaotic behavior implies that there is something going on beside the SE. But this is not news. The existence of classical reality in the first place implies the same thing. This is the measurement problem: if you start with a superposition, and you transform it according to the SE (or any other linear dynamic) then you have to end in a superposition, but in "reality" you don't. So you have only three choices: introduce some non-linear postulate, deny classical reality, or deny free choice. That is the long and the short of it. There's nothing special about choas in this regard, it's just more evidence that QM is weird, but we knew that already.

[strainer]

Thankyou for re-distilling that for me. Besides my meager comprehension of the area it was fascinating.

[lisper]

You bet.