Why can’t we just take the HUP at face value? It seems to me that humans have a hard time accepting that perhaps we can not know all factors which contribute to the evolution of our physical universe. Leaving aside the HUP; even on a macroscopic scale the universe is evolving and becoming more complex, introducing new emergent properties all the time.
And under such circumstances I find it a bit much we can claim the universe is Deterministic. All we can do is better and better approximations with the “promise” of exactitude in predictions if given infinite approximations over an infinite amount of time. It seems to me that the bigger message coming from nature is that it is impossible for us to know all factors or conditions necessary to predict the future with certainty. Perhaps it is the emotional and practical need for certainty which requires humans to idealise a Deterministic universe.
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