303 | AMA | February 2025

1244.547 - 1267.141 Sean Carroll

The point of Laplace's demon is that the information needed to predict what comes in the future is implicitly present in the moment right now. If you had the complete 100% comprehensive state of the universe. You never do, so that's just a thought experiment just to try to teach you what determinism really means. In quantum mechanics, for all intents and purposes, in the observable universe,