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The probability waves may be regular real waves, it's just convenient to describe amplitude and phase at every point with a complex number. We could describe water surface the same way, but it wouldn't mean water is complex.



The point is that waves are inherent in the description, whether it's complex numbers or amplitude + phase.




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