Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id RAA20854 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 2 Apr 2001 17:54:29 +0100 Message-ID: <3AC8ADED.914F927D@bioinf.man.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 17:50:53 +0100 From: Chris Taylor <Christopher.Taylor@man.ac.uk> Organization: University of Manchester X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Determinism References: <20010402163843.AAA9824@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Nah, I only mentioned the quantum stuff at the outset because that's the
only thing that isn't knowable (at the mo - a physicist friend reckons
it'll be less unknowable when we start looking at the Planck scale - I,
of course, agree, probably, er...).
Anyway, someone before said that they doubted there were any true
determinists around, I am one, so I tried to chip in. It doesn't matter
(for the principle) whether you can really know the state of every
variable in a system, the point is if you could, you could perfectly
predict the future of that system. This includes minds (the point of the
post).
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