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Dear Hans,
Thank you very much again for your lecture and your
subsequent comments and replies. I dare posting a new
comment as an aftermath to your wrap-up and to Pedro's
official closure. But I am sure you agree with me, that the
matter cannot be settled yet and that a continuation of the
Dear Dino and friends, thanks for bringing up the issue of probability
amplitudes. Since they are technical tools of physics, and since I didn't
want to go too far afield, I did not mention them in my lecture. The
closest I came was the wavefunction, which, indeed, is a probability
amplitude.
Dear Hans,
Thank you for your explanation about probability amplitudes,
that clarifies a lot. My only worry was about the *epistemological*
implications of quantum mechanics in its standard formulation,
that in my opinion point to a paradigm shift, which is felt not only
in this domain, but in
