Criticism of The Claim That Chaos Theory Supports Indeterminism
But this set limits to determinism only insofar it requires the capacity of humans to calculate (predict) future events, so it is about the limits of human knowledge, not about the fact that nature in itself would behave deterministically or indeterministically. No one assumes that a Lorenz system would in itself behave indeterministically, it is even clear to anyone who computes it that the Lorenz systems are wholly deterministic, but that small differences in initial conditions determine very different end results. Speaking of measuring such differences for real world systems, they could go below the measurement error and thus render humans unable to predict the end result of such system, without entailing that in itself the system would behave indeterministically. At best, we would be unable to tell whether it is deterministic or indeterministic through employing the scientific method. Therefore the claim that real world chaotic systems are in themselves completely indeterministic is a metaphysical claim which leads to no testable predictions.
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