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Saying that the universe knows amounts to a hidden variable theory - weren't those pretty much disproved by Aspect's and subsequent confirmation of the violation of Bell's inequalities?

Hmm - QM gives us probabilities of the most likely outcome, but it doesn't predict the outcome itself - it's still equivalent to some throw of the dice: more than one outcome is possible. But in a deterministic universe only one outcome is possible.

I just recently learned about Leonard Susskind's work on conservation of information. From what I've read and from his lectures, conservation of information and the holographic principle are based on the reversibility of physical laws. Reversibility in turn implies determinism, so if...

Hi My name is Alex A computer scientist by trade and philosophy enthusiast by hobby. I occasionally find myself delving into question about physics in general and the physics of computation in particular. My areas of expertise are machine learning and AI, and I know a little bit about...