Ayyo. I work for a quantum information group. Wavefunction collapse is a way of dealing with measurement, or having information spill from a closed system into

Ayyo. I work for a quantum information group. Wavefunction collapse is a way of dealing with measurement, or having information spill from a closed system into a system with a huge number of degrees of freedom. If I was able to solve the schroedinger equation on the system that consisted of the "quantum machine" and the observer all in a perfectly sealed insulated box, there'd be nothing nondeterministic about this. I'll go further. Wavefunction collapse is just a system with a few quantum degrees of freedom getting itself all entangled with a system with a HUGE number of degrees of freedom. Hence the "randomness."