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    Challenges→In environmental decoherence models with coherent preferred states, the resulting trajectories of individual components will be close to Newtonian ones on relevant scales.

    Newtonian trajectories describe single, determinate histories, whereas the post-decoherence state remains a superposition of approximately classical components.

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    • 1.Decoherence eliminates quantum interference between branches, making them empirically indistinguishable from classical alternatives.
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    • 2.Newton's framework yields unique solutions from initial conditions; quantum superposition lacks this deterministic trajectory structure.
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    • 3.Classical components post-decoherence remain entangled with unmeasured degrees of freedom, preventing collapse to single histories.
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    • 1.Decoherence describes information loss, not physical branching—superposition may remain ontologically fundamental regardless.
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    • 2.Newton's theories also fail to determine unique histories without boundary conditions; initial state specification is equally underdetermined.
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    • 3.Classical approximation doesn't prove superposition ends; effective descriptions needn't reflect underlying quantum reality.
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