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 Originally Posted by boost
[...] if determinism is the way of the universe.
Well... it's complicated. We need to be careful about how we define and use the word "determinism" in this context.
The universe is deterministic within a rigidly defined spread of probabilistic "allowed" outcomes.
Originally Posted by wufwugy
If at a later date we perfectly model the universe and perfectly model causality, we might find ourselves saying things like this: "well in this situation the entity says yes 84% of the time and no 16% of the time".
This is pretty much what QM has revealed to us.
For the systems which we can model perfectly, we see exactly this kind of causality. There are certain "allowed" evolutions of the prepared system, and those outcomes will happen at very well-defined probabilities. Plenty of systems will have only 1 allowed future, which happens at 100%, but plenty systems are not so straight-forward.
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