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by Erlich_Bachman 2731 days ago
But turing machines are theoretical concepts. The physical processors we have - are only physical approximations of a theoretical concepts - and if the argument was made for the view of "determinism" that I outlined - it would be about the physical processor, the physical world itself.

Paraphrasing, the theoretical image of an atom, as well as the set of atoms and other particles - is perfectly deterministic. But the chaos theory talks about the real world, not the theoretical framework.

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The concept of determinism has no physical limits. Don't try to redefine standard terminology.
The concept has no limits, true. The physical world does.