Ontological and epistemological doubt, quantum, and probability
Hello Mikhi, in the liberal sciences you say that there is epistemological doubt that we do not know what reality is. And in a vague reality it is ontological doubt because reality is unclear and not that we lack knowledge about reality. If we have epistemological doubt we can use probability and then we can know what the percentage is that something was like a cube. But if reality is vague then we cannot say what the probability is because there is no probability, like the law of large numbers or in chaos, but it is truly random. But in quantum it is “ontological doubt” and we do use probability. How exactly is this possible? And doesn’t that indicate that it is epistemological doubt and not ontological?
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So superposition is a state that exists but cannot be measured?
True. But you can tell he was, like in the two-crack experiment.
Or are there hidden variables that we're not aware of, right?
This is a possibility that has not yet been completely rejected.
How could it possibly be rejected? But Schrödinger's cat is exactly saying that there are such variables unless you tell me that the measurement changes something, and I don't know why but it feels less likely to me that our measurement changes something in the quantum. No?
Probability is about the results of the measurement.
I once heard that the French name for the wave function (or a similar concept from the field) uses the word densite – density (as in density function) and I think that is a great way to look at superposition. As if (or not as if) the particle is everywhere with varying density and where it is most dense – it is most likely to be measured
“Likely to measure” – after the collapse of the wave function.
It is not meant “Likely to measure” – its location will be revealed
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