Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id RAA06306 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 5 Apr 2001 17:27:09 +0100 Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 20:26:31 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time) From: TJ Olney <market@cc.wwu.edu> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Determinism In-Reply-To: <3ACC6D2C.559AEFB9@bioinf.man.ac.uk> Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.21.0104052021310.169-100000@C157775-A.frndl1.wa.home.com> X-X-Sender: market@[140.160.80.17] Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
I always try to keep in mind that the normal distribution is exactly what you
get when you posit a very large number of deterministic events with complex
sequences of causation. And, that what we measure as being any particular
distribution is no more and no less than a set of events that is
indistinguishable from that distribution. The distribution is a model. The
map is not the territory.
Tends to put this kind of discussion in perspective.
TJ
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