Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id QAA20231 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 1 May 2002 16:27:55 +0100 X-Originating-IP: [137.110.248.206] From: "Grant Callaghan" <grantc4@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: future language Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 08:22:03 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <LAW2-F653HFnwpGR88100007c62@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 May 2002 15:22:04.0345 (UTC) FILETIME=[F2D79A90:01C1F123] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
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>--- Grant Callaghan <grantc4@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > It's been my observation over these past 70 and more years that most
> > of the
> > predictions of the future made in my lifetime were more wrong than
> > right.
> >
> >
> > Grant
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>
>Our definitions of the "predictions of the future" are then wildly
>divergent. For example, for me the capability to accurately predict
>weather for next day is already orders of magnitude more than what our
>ancestors were capable off. All of our science is based on the idea
>that we can model and *predict* the phenomena in nature. The success
>there is obviously something that I count as success in predictions
>about the future, while (again obviously) you don't. This is perfectly
>fine, as long as we are both aware that we are speaking about different
>things when we speak of "prediction of the future". :)
>
It is getting better, but the weather predictions I see every night on TV
are still pretty iffy. My wife and I often joke about the number of times
they predict rain and there is none or the calls on tomorrow's temperature
that are off by ten to twenty degrees.
Cheers,
Grant
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