> is that not following instructions written by programmers Not in any useful sense. Everything's deterministic with perfect knowledge, but nobody has perfect

> is that not following instructions written by programmers Not in any useful sense. Everything's deterministic with perfect knowledge, but nobody has perfect knowledge. The universe is still a machine too, and yet somehow manages to surprise us anyway. As soon as you inject non-replicable random numbers into the process, "following instructions" isn't entirely true any more.