On 15 May 2015 at 10:46, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sure, so we now know the daemon cannot be physical. I'm not sure that > Laplace thought they had to be physical to make his non-physical > thought experiments go through though. After all, even though Laplace > made his famous quip to Napoleon, most people at the time believed in > a non-physical God person. > > Also, I think his quip has been somewhat exaggerrated. (I looked it up recently for crossword setting purposes, I think, and was disappointed to discover it was apocryphal). At least according to Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Simon_Laplace#I_had_no_need_of_that_hypothesis -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
