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AlexSH
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I just recently learned about Leonard Susskind's work on conservation of information.
From what I've read and from his lectures, conservation of information and the holographic principle are based on the reversibility of physical laws. Reversibility in turn implies determinism, so if conservation of information holds, then the universe is deterministic.
But isn't the fact that the universe is not deterministic one of the big discoveries of the 20th century?
What am I missing here? How is conservation of information compatible with indeterminism? Or is it that Susskind and other's results regarding conservation of information brought back determinism and refuted indeterminism?
From what I've read and from his lectures, conservation of information and the holographic principle are based on the reversibility of physical laws. Reversibility in turn implies determinism, so if conservation of information holds, then the universe is deterministic.
But isn't the fact that the universe is not deterministic one of the big discoveries of the 20th century?
What am I missing here? How is conservation of information compatible with indeterminism? Or is it that Susskind and other's results regarding conservation of information brought back determinism and refuted indeterminism?