AMA | October 2024

10023.615 - 10049.129 Sean Carroll

In what sense then is information conserved? Well, I could have grouped this with a previous question. When we talk about Laplace's demon, we often do exactly what I did before, which is to say, let's simplify our lives and imagine the world is classical, okay? That's the world in which Laplace actually invented Laplace's demon, and in that world, Laplace's demon is very simple to explain.