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>>6858335
I should have said, determinism in a mathematical perspective

cause and effect is just a concept in physics, a priori not formalized beyond the logical implication [in logic thus]


first you must talk about what it is:


A simulation of a abstract system is to know exactly, from a initial condition/state, the final condition/state after a (typically temporal) evolution of the system. This is crunching numbers before the events IRL. IF the predictions is verified, this is called determinism.

>In passing, reminder that QM outputs deterministically, from the SE, the probabilities of the results/final states (instead of outputting deterministically the results/final states, like it would be the case in Classical mechanics).
By our definition of the knowledge, we do not know if the model works before crunching the numbers and compare with the phenomenon.

I do not think that a human can know the initial condition [of whatever system he studies, especially if he is the system itself], let alone the laws that he must use.