Pulse Core Lexicon
Quantum Indeterminacy
Definition
Quantum Indeterminacy, in the book's reading, is probabilistic behavior that arises from phase ambiguity when a recursive system operates at the limit of its computational resolution, rather than from any fundamental randomness in nature.
The book traces it to the very first computation. At the transition from Frame 0 to Frame 1, the Binary Transition Operator takes the Zero Substrate state, its neighborhood configuration and the initial tension distribution and produces the first dynamic state, establishing a recursive depth R_d = 1 [∅], the first instantiation of computational dynamics, which the book connects directly to the indeterminacy mechanisms of Part 5.2. With so little recursive depth, phases cannot be fully resolved, and the unresolved phase appears as probability. The book cites loop quantum gravity's view that geometry emerges from discrete quantum states as support for such pre-metric, relational states.
Quantum Indeterminacy connects to Phase Ambiguity, Phase Uncertainty Amplitude, Recursive Depth, Binary Transition Operator, Frame 0 to Frame 1 and Temporal Phase Ambiguity.
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