Question: I am struggling to interpret the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics and am wondering if uncertainty is an emergent property of nature or if this is really a statement about our measurement tools. I know similar questions have been answered here and I have read the responses and still don't feel I have a good grasp on this. One way I have been thinking about this is with a simple classical example of a wave that can be applied to think about quantum mechanical waves:

Consider a pulse forming a wave, at a short time after we start the pulses it has a small delta uncertainty in position but a large uncertainty in wavelength. Now as we add more pulses one after another we can measure more information about the wave and we get less uncertainty in wavelength but it increases uncertainty in the position. If this uncertainty was an emergent property of the waves the uncertainty wouldn't change as we measured longer duration of pulses and get more certainty in the wavelength but less in the position. So it begs the question from a QM standpoint, is this simply because we don't have enough information/tools to measure properties accurately or are the waves properties truly not well defined. I feel like the answer is yes, since when measuring this wave the wave itself has not changed, only how we are measuring it.

I find this to be an important question because we make a lot of assumptions about the nature of reality based on the idea that states of particles are probabilistic until measured.

Answer: 
It's not about what causes the gravitational force to be greater. It's that the normal force will be less (these two statements are the same mathematically, but colloquially they change the focus).

Let's look at a simpler example. Take a box and put it on the floor. We can say the normal force acting on the box is equal to its weight. Now let's apply an upward force to the box (for example, with your hands) with a magnitude less than the box's weight. What happens? The normal force will decrease to be less than the box's weight even though the box will remain at rest.

Now let's go to your example. Because the block is undergoing circular motion, we know that the normal force has to be less than the gravitational force to have a net inward force. The easiest way to relate this to the previous example is to move to a frame that is rotating with the block. In this frame, the centrifugal force acts like the force from our hands on our box. The block will stay at rest (in the rotating frame), but the normal force will be less than the weight.

The main source of confusion here is from your more general thought

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It is time to abandon this. It is true in most introductory physics problems when you are first introduced to the normal force, but this is not true in general. The normal force is only equal to the "forces against it" if there is no acceleration in the direction of the normal force, since then we can say that $N=F\_\text{oppose}$. If there is acceleration along the direction of the normal force, then there is no longer a balance of forces in that direction. Your example here shows this. A simpler example would be the case of accelerating in an elevator, where the normal force is larger (smaller) than the weight if the elevator is accelerating upwards (downwards). A more complicated example that you might have seen where the normal force is not equal to the forces "against it" is an object going around a banked curve, where the normal force is perpendicular to the curve, but the acceleration has a non-zero component perpendicular to the curve.
To take an extreme example, keep increasing the speed of the block until it reaches orbital velocity. At that point the block is in orbit (even though it's right next to the surface, even touching the surface -- remember, you postulated no friction and no air resistance). For a body in orbit the normal force is 0. So the two extremes are normal force equal to gravitational force (when the block is at rest) and normal force equal to 0 (when the block is moving at orbital velocity). The normal force varies continuously between those extremes.