Does the unpredictability of quantum events produce a butterfly effect on the macro level? i.e., since we can't predict the result of a quantum process, and our brains are composed of eleventy zillion quantum processes, does that make our brains' output inherently unpredictable as well? Or do the quantum effects somehow cancel out? It seems to me that they must cancel out in at least some circumstances or we wouldn't have things like predictable ball collisions, spring behavior, etc.
If there is a butterfly effect, wouldn't that have something to say about Omega problems (where the predictability of the brain is a given) and some of the nastier kinds of AI basilisks?
Some systems exhibit a butterfly effect (a.k.a. chaos); some don't. The butterfly effect is where (arbitrarily) small changes to the conditions of the system can totally change it's future course. The weather is a good example of this. The change caused by a butterfly flapping it's wing differently will amplify itself until the entire Earth's weather is different from what it would have been. But other systems aren't like that. They're more "stable". For example if you change the position of any individual atom in my computer it won't make any di...
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