To Rob’s reply, I’ll add that my own first reaction to your question was that it seems like a map-territory / perspective issue as appears in eg thermodynamics? Like, this has a similar flavor to asking “What does it mean to say that a classical system is in a state of high entropy when it actually only has one particular system state?” Adding this now in case I don’t have time to expand on it later; maybe just saying that much will help at all, possibly.
To Rob’s reply, I’ll add that my own first reaction to your question was that it seems like a map-territory / perspective issue as appears in eg thermodynamics? Like, this has a similar flavor to asking “What does it mean to say that a classical system is in a state of high entropy when it actually only has one particular system state?” Adding this now in case I don’t have time to expand on it later; maybe just saying that much will help at all, possibly.