Schrödinger, far from resisting indeterminism, argued from the 1920s that classical mechanics itself is statistical and that physics never needed to be deterministic.
Was Schr\"odinger ever a determinist?
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Erwin Schr\"odinger is often portrayed as a reactionary who resisted the indeterminism introduced by quantum mechanics, but on closer inspection his views on determinism prove to be more complex and more radical.
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Was Schr\"odinger ever a determinist?
Schrödinger, far from resisting indeterminism, argued from the 1920s that classical mechanics itself is statistical and that physics never needed to be deterministic.