Critics of Bohmian mechanics criticize it for its additional complexity compared to the Copenhagen interpretation. However, the Copenhagen interpretation requires the universe to have a (global) randomness generation mechanism to explain observations when the wave function collapses. Those critics have probably never tried to design or implement a good random number generator or examine how complicated random number generation actually is. For example, examine the source code to Mersenne Twister or a modern cryptographic cipher. These examples are just our best human attempts at random number generation. The universe's random number generator, which is conveniently omitted but is a necessary part of the Copenhagen interpretation, is believed to be much higher quality -- so likely much more complex -- than the best human-designed PRNGs.
Does this criticism of the Copenhagen interpretation assume we live in a simulation?
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