Laplace’s demon
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Do you need to know what Demons are in scientific theory, or about Laplace’s in particular?
For Laplace’s it’s an examination of the deterministic nature of classical physics, before quantum thought and random chance entered in to the thought process. It just posits that if some entity, doesn’t matter what or who, somehow knew the exact state and condition of all the particles in the universe, they would be able to work out both all of history and all of the future behavior and states for those particles by working forward or backward from their starting point. That has some interesting applications for our thoughts about free will and self determination but is also fairly limited utility and it’s axioms are not necessarily well supported.
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