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AMA | July 2023

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Human Anti-Human Dichotomy of Constraint Laws

In optimal control theory, physical laws are often directly formulated as hard dynamical constraints. On the one hand, it fits well with the human view, but these natural constraints might have more oomph to them than mere convenient ways of summarizing the world. But that's not Laplace's demon. The universe sort of just mindlessly chugs along from moment to moment. That's not really very demonesque.

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