Nobody knows.@FrumiousBandersnatch
I'm still wondering if you will just maybe come out and maybe just plainly answer/say that the entire universe (or this physical reality, etc) is all deterministic, etc...? And could perhaps maybe also explain why you maybe think that maybe, etc...?
AIUI, the laws of physics appear to be deterministic, including those of quantum mechanics, but there is uncertainty about how to interpret the rules of quantum mechanics to account for the probabilistic nature of our observations of quantum behaviour. Some interpretations add extra rules involving non-deterministic behaviour and some don't.You mentioned the laws of physics for example... So what about the laws of physics leads you to think, (or else otherwise believe/suspect, etc), that the universe is deterministic, etc...?
I'm attracted by the simplicity of the deterministic interpretations and the challenge of the radically different view of the universe they imply; but in all interpretations, it seems we will observe probabilistic outcomes of quantum measurements.
So ISTM that the universe is empirically probabilistic at the quantum scale, but the averaging out of interactions over many orders of magnitude means that, at macro scales, the world is effectively deterministic - macro-scale unpredictability is more a result of deterministic chaotic and pseudo-random activity than quantum randomness.
No, I doubt that it's possible, even in principle, to make sufficiently precise observations for that.Do you think everything above the level of the atom (right now) can be mathematically known/predicted right now, etc...? Or at least maybe could be at least potentially maybe, etc...?
And then also again, what also makes you maybe think that maybe, etc...?
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