How valid is the indivisible interpretation of quantum mechanics?

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DarkloidNeos said:
From what I read the lack of causality is a feature and not a bug since it's supposed to break it and suggest that things happen randomly. Though I don't know how accurate that is.
Lack of "causal power" means something slightly different than lack of causality.

Lack of "causal power" occurs for example if trajectories in Bohmian mechanics are allowed to be discontinuous, but without specifying any rules for the discontinuities. Or rather, the only rule for the discontinuities is that the particle configuration after the jump must be still be distributed according to the quantum-equilibrium condition. But nothing is said about when or why jumps happen, whether only one particle can jump at a time, or only all particles can jump together.

As a consequence, knowing the current particle positions does not allow any predictions beyond those predictions already possible by knowing only the wavefunction. But intuitively, you still believe you can predict something, because if no jump occurs, then the normal Bohmian predictions would apply. And then you can get into discussions with Morbert that this is no problem, and you are demanding too much, when you want to know rules for those jumps.
 

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