Ep 168: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 9 ”Quantum Computers” Part 1
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Chaos Theory and the Butterfly Effect
classical uncertainty leads to chaos theory which is David Sisson in the chapter here about to come up was fashionable at the time when the fabric of reality was being written. You could have these systems which became chaotic they were perfectly deterministic but were exquisitely sensitive to the initial conditions now as David will explain you don't get these chaotic effects in reality this butterfly effect is one that is talked about most often and then there's a hurricane produced on the other side of the world well this doesn't happen in reality that's chaos theory right if the world was governed by classical physics that could happen why could that happen?
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