MistyPines

I have quite a few, actually… ^^; Zootopia, The Lion King, Aladdin, Beauty and The Beast, Sleeping Beauty (widescreen), Flight of the Navigator, Return To Oz… I must say about that latter though, that Disney's notion of when things might get "too scary for kids" is somewhat variable. I mean, srsly: Eeep!

In a way, I always knew. The sense that my world was a bubble that had yet to burst first came to me around the age of 7 so far as I remember, prompted I think by my parents buying new furniture and carpeting for the house. It made me aware that things change, and my childhood home as I remembered it would never be quite the same from then on. And I was old enough to have noticed that my understanding of Life, Existence, and Everything™ had already shifted substantially from when I was younger, and to know that how I saw things would continue to change. Further, I noticed that for the most part adults seemed to have entirely forgotten how to just have fun. They struck me as almost tone-deaf to it. Their imagination had become severely hampered by what they called "realism". I didn't want to become like them, in that regard. So I dug in my heels early and held on as tightly as I could…

Glad I could help. ? Reality is far more subtle than it appears; it is all too easy to make incorrect (yet seemingly obvious) inferences about it which lead to depressing conclusions.

What they demonstrate, in summary, is that what information exists and what information doesn't depends on what measurements are made. The idea that the information may exist but be hidden / unmeasurable has been experimentally invalidated. There's a lot to dig into for details of how this was accomplished, but a good place to start is Bell's Theorem Long story short, uncertainty is a fundamental feature of reality, not only a restriction on what can practically be measured.

I think this is the flaw. Modern physics has all but shown local determinism to be impossible. This means that, even if one were to know everything that there is to be known, it would still not be possible to perfectly predict behavior of a person, nor even the time evolution of a physical system.