295 | Solo: Emergence and Layers of Reality

796.604 - 818.369 Sean Carroll

Now you can be specific about whether or not you're in the classical approximation or you really want to do the whole quantum field theory if you want to, but one way or the other, the idea of Laplace's demon is that if you knew exactly the state of that piece of paper plus the environment that it was bumping into, then the laws of physics would tell you, would allow you to predict how it would behave, okay?