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by tsimionescu 501 days ago
State transitions are deterministic, it's only measurement that is probabilistic.
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Even that is arguable. Subjective experience is probabilistic… kinda.
Do atoms decay deterministically?
As long as they are isolated, their state is a superposition of all possible states, and evolves determinsitically, with the amplitude of each of these "sub-states" evolving perfectly determinsitically. If you want to perform a measurement, you choose a possible decomposition of the superposition state and measure along that axis, and you'll get one of the values along that axis, with a probability that is the modulus of the square of the (complex) amplitude of that value.
Yes, aka. continuously. Interactions with larger systems makes it appear discontinuous.
I saw the best minds of my generation pithposting on hn.