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From: Gordon@ucl-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: free will
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Date: 3 Jul 89 15:46:51 GMT
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> From: Michael Ellis <ellis@chips2.sri.com>
> Exactly so. But if CT is correct, then the global behavior of
> sufficiently complex systems is sensitive to infinitesimal
> fluctuations, everywhere. QM provides infinitesimal fluctuations
> everywhere. Ergo, QM+CT *together* demonstrate that sufficiently
> complex systems are genuinely unpredictable on both micro- and macro-
> scopic levels. QED.

Chaos does not depend on "complexity". The logistic map,
      
            x -> x*x + c 

is only chaotic above c ~= 3.7

Gordon.