295 | Solo: Emergence and Layers of Reality

818.649 - 842.838 Sean Carroll

You would have the position and momentum of all the atoms that were in the piece of paper and you could tell how it would go up and would go down. You're not Laplace's demon. You're never going to be Laplace's demon. We all know that. You don't know all those positions and velocities. You have vastly incomplete information about the specific microscopic state of the atoms in that piece of paper.