> Chaos is the effect you get when you can't measure something accurately enough, or you can't (don't have enough computational power) to run a perfect reality

> Chaos is the effect you get when you can't measure something accurately enough, or you can't (don't have enough computational power) to run a perfect reality simulation with those measurements (even if they're good enough in theory to form the basis of an accurate prediction) in reasonable time, or both. Chaos theory with regards to information doesn't take multiple observers into account - where the observers actually change the how the information is related and moves. If you can measure that, then it ceases to be chaotic. Whether that's possible (inferring intent), I am not sure. > If there is free will that transcends physics, then prediction is fundamentally impossible by something bound to physics—so it's a thought experiment where some things are bound to the laws of physics and others are not. What is the purpose of conducting thought experiments about the physical world, based on supernatural axioms? I think these theoretical suppositions are based more on a fear of something that people imagine to be real, and may be real. Instead of supernatural beings, suppose there are people that define the world, and people that live within the definition. The fear that the groups are mutually exclusive leads is directly analogous to the philosophical problem. > "Free will exists," the claim goes, and yet "here's a thing that can collapse free will and issue arbitrarily accurate predictions on human behavior." And then, "Let's see what happens when these axioms are applied to someone in the physical world choosing whether to try to make more money or less." The thing always depends on states of mind, explanations, the pretense of logic and maths, which ultimately convey themselves to me as rhetoric. There is mind, and there is the world. Instead of considering discrete points in which perfect knowledge is known, I'm more concerned with rates of information flow.