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Comment author: wedrifid 24 March 2012 01:15:27PM -1 points [-]

Firstly, if the universe is distributions of complex amplitudes in configuration space, then shouldn't we describe our knowledge of the world as probability distributions of complex amplitude distributions?

More or less.

Is there some incredibly convenient simplification I'm missing?

I find I get a lot of mileage out of using words. It does lose a lot of information - which I suppose is rather the point.

Comment author: VKS 24 March 2012 09:43:58PM 0 points [-]

What I meant by that is that distributions of other distributions are the sort of thing you would kind of expect to be incredibly impractical to use, but also could have some handy mathematical ways to look at them. Since I am unfamiliar with the formalisms involved, I was wondering if anybody could enlighten me.

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