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> But models tend to break down if you look close enough, and I think this may also happen to QM at some point.

Sure, but there's absolutely nothing to suggest that it will be some kind of deterministic computation underneath.

> We do - at least as long we look at clumps of matter.

Not even. Even non-quantum clumps of matter are influenced by continuous fields and dilation effects from both special and relativity. Even without QM, our universe is not efficiently simulatable on our computational models because of general relativity.

parent titzer 2 years ago

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