…very familiar creode to the statement: well in principle, it should be possible to model it all. It's the modern version of Laplace. It's the modern version of the idea that somehow, in principle the whole of reality could be engulfed within some kind of…

…If you knew the initial positions I e in the present, this divinely omniscient mind could calculate all future. Well yes that's Laplace but that was in a deterministic universe where the god was modeled on Laplace. But what I'm talking about is divine…

…could calculate all future. Well yes that's Laplace but that was in a deterministic universe where the god was modeled on Laplace. But what I'm talking about is divine omnipersipience. Let's say omniperception that if there were a mind associated with the…

…the old kind is go wrong and god had to intervene from time to time in newton's model to wind up the machinery again. Laplace at the beginning of the 19th century, perfected the equations of celestial mechanics and got rid of the need for this kind of…

…throughout the physical world. In the 19th century it was generally believed that there was no indeterminacy at all. Everything in the Laplace thought that the whole future and past of the universe could be calculated from its present state if there were a…

…was where did the moon come from? And there have been for hundreds of years, different theories. I mean, clear back to Laplace. One theory, Laplace noticed that galaxies and solar systems, everything condensed down out of dust. And he put, this is in the…

…the moon come from? And there have been for hundreds of years, different theories. I mean, clear back to Laplace. One theory, Laplace noticed that galaxies and solar systems, everything condensed down out of dust. And he put, this is in the 1770s, put…