Pierre-Simon Laplace / 拉普拉斯

Pierre-Simon Laplace appears in EP256 AI时代，“自由意志”还存在吗？ through [[LaplacesDemon|Laplace’s demon]]. The episode uses this image of complete causal predictability as one of modern science’s classic challenges to [[FreeWill|free will]].

His role in the source is conceptual rather than biographical. Laplace represents the extension of [[IsaacNewton|Newtonian]] lawfulness into the thought that, if an intelligence knew every particle state and law, the future might be calculable in principle.

Connections

• Laplace’s Demon / 拉普拉斯妖 - concept named from his deterministic thought experiment.
• Causal Determinism / 因果决定论 and Free Will / 自由意志 - philosophical stakes.
• Isaac Newton / 牛顿 - mechanics background the episode links to modern scientific pressure on free will.