Evidence that addictive behaviors have links with ancient retroviral infection

Re:Evidence that addictive behaviors have links with ancient... by Iolaum on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @02:14PM (#18068940)

This is not possible because of quantum mechanics. You cannot know the exact location and speed of particles in your brain and therefore cannot build a deterministic model to predict its behavior.

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Re:Evidence that addictive behaviors have links with ancient... by yesenadam on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @07:46AM (#18074894)

I think chaos theory suffices to establish your second sentence, without needing to bring in quantum mechanics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory

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Re:Evidence that addictive behaviors have links with ancient... by Iolaum on Friday September 28, 2018 @04:02PM (#18096578)

Chaos theory is enough if you accept imperfect measurements, which would result in small changes in initial conditions. But you need quantum mechanics to prove that you cannot have perfect measurements of all the quantities involved in the evolution of a system.

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