…imagined god of the mechanistic world machine, somehow external to the mechanism. And this is the world in which Laplace and his followers thought that their minds were actually dwelling through experiencing these eternal mathematical truths, learning them in…

…imagined god of the mechanistic world machine, somehow external to the mechanism. And this is the world in which Laplace and his followers thought that their minds were actually dwelling through experiencing these eternal mathematical truths, learning them in…

…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 forth…

…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…

…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…

…believed that there was no indeterminacy at all. Everything in the physical world was totally conditioned by eternal laws of nature. Laplace thought that the whole future and past of the universe could be calculated from its present state if there were a…