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Not planned.
The squirrel didn't plan to get crushed. For him, it was random. Bad luck. Not caused by an act of will.
For him in his ignorance of things it seemed random.
Could be. More likely the branch collapsed as a result of macro scale events not triggered by any particular atomic behavior
Not totally random, stochastic. The wavefunction is a probability density function that typically has only a few significant peaks of likelihood.
Everything that happens is at the atomic level (the electrostatic forces between electrons and protons which bind molecules together) in which quantum mechanics rules.
Events happen at all levels, not just the one you prefer to focus on. QM randomness likely doesnt cause the fall of the branch.
That's true, but as Ken Wilson proved back in the '80s, it is not necessary to understand the behaviours of underlying levels when dealing with properties at a higher level of abstraction, as they have their own emergent laws of behaviour that encapsulate the bulk activities of the lower levels; so you don't need to know the details of quantum mechanics to do basic chemistry, nor chemistry to do biology, nor biology to do sociology, and so-on.
