I don’t understand this concept of “chaos” in a universe governed by physics.
Just because something is nearly infinitely complicated, doesn’t mean predicting outcomes would be actually impossible. If the universe produces the outcome, doesn’t that mean it’s following a rule set?
Do I fundamentally not understand chaos theory?
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The nature of complex systems is such that they change themselves over time. the combinatorial complexity of these systems explodes the more you try to take into account this feedback in the system.
If you try to model systems beyond a certain level of complexity you run into a hard limit: it would take more computing power to make a prediction than could exist even if the entire universe itself was made into a computer to perform this computation and was running this computation for billions of years. In order to make it both *feasible* and *viable* to simulate things with computation we need to dramatically reduce the combinatorial complexity of the system.
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