> You said neither by the way, you said "evaluate".

You are entirely correct. I was sloppy in my first comment. I should have said simulate. My sincere apologies if that's been the crux of our dispute.

> The only POSSIBLE distinction between SIMULATING and PREDICTING would be the time taken for the computation

No. The distinction is in determining which "you" is you. When simulating the wavefunction, every you is simulated.

> We CERTAINLY don’t have ANYTHING CLOSE to a complete UNDERSTANDING of how the basic laws actually play out in the real world

It's very understandable if you include his following sentence:

> But these are manifestations of the underlying laws, not signs that our understanding of the laws are incomplete

He's saying we don't understand emergent behavior produced by the laws - not that the laws themselves are incomplete. E.g. we don't know how/why a bag of neurons turns into a person.