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"If the birds and the caterpillars and the apple trees could know the future of chaotic systems, it would imply that we live in a deterministic universe where birds and caterpillars and apple trees could not exist. QED."

Wut?

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Complex dynamics 101: life is a complex dynamical system. If the math of chaos is wrong, the processes underlying life would not operate as they do. Life would not exist as we observe it.

Also, your iPad would not work. As I said, QED. This is not controversial.

For something so "not controversial" that it doesn't require citations, your comment is pretty faded.

The Mandelbrot set is both chaotic and deterministic. QED

> Also, your iPad would not work.

What?

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