Posted: Oct 26, 2018 10:17 pm
ughaibu wrote:Tell me, am I lying or misrepresenting actual scientific findings by pointing out that the predictions of quantum mechanics are irreducibly probabilistic? Am I lying or misrepresenting anything by spelling out what "irreducibly probabilistic" amounts to?
You simply don't understand quantum mechanics beyond chanting platitudes like "irreducibly probabilistic". If that were the case, statistical thermodynamics would not have become the success it has been, and its treatment of the moments of statistical distributions would be useless. What's irreducibly probabilistic is that the behavior of individual particles modeled as classical objects (let alone as quantum entities) in ensembles is not a subject of study except in computer simulations and is not scaled up to the level of biological structures containing millions of atoms. If you're asserting that the quantum quirks of a single atom in a single molecule in the heat bath ramp up to the unpredictability of human behavior, you're sadly deluded. Those quirks are washed out by thermal noise in a few tens of nanoseconds. Statistical mechanics in the liquid state is still very difficult, and that difficulty does not add up to the platitude that the irreducibly probabilistic analysis of quantum mechanics is applicable at that scale.