The "Unpredictability Or Randomness" Of Quantum Mechanics Through Systemic Functional Linguistics

Hawking (1988: 55-6):

In general, quantum mechanics does not predict a single definite result for an observation. Instead, it predicts a number of different possible outcomes and tells us how likely each of these is. That is to say, if one made the same measurement on a large number of similar systems, each of which started off in the same way, one would find that the result of the measurement would be A in a certain number of cases, B in a different number, and so on. One could predict the approximate number of times that the result would be A or B, but one could not predict the specific result of an individual measurement. Quantum mechanics therefore introduces an unavoidable element of unpredictability or randomness into science.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, the possible outcomes predicted by (the wave function of) quantum mechanics constitute the potential meanings of a given system that can be construed of experience, and the likelihood of each outcome constitutes the quantification of such potential as probability.  The specific results of individual measurements are instances of that potential, whose frequencies are in line with the probabilities of the system potential.

What this actually demonstrates is that the construal experience of the non-semiotic domain as meaning, by consciousness, is itself probabilistic.