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ChildrenTalking
from United States on 2004-09-26 22:08 [#01345108]
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or is it just funny coincidences :)
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KainiIndustries
from over the roof floats billy on 2004-09-26 22:08 [#01345109]
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no
life is completely random
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sneakattack
on 2004-09-26 22:10 [#01345111]
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the universe is completely deterministic. Sorry fuckers. Pardon me while I determine which nucleii are going to decay over here..
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ChildrenTalking
from United States on 2004-09-26 22:12 [#01345112]
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i sometimes start to wonder that, like a domino effect that effects everyone and everything around it in a complex invinsible chain. like that theory about if a butterfly flaps its wind in the air it manages to create a tornado on the other side of the world. that doesn't mean i believe in that exact predicament but that idea how such a very insignificant change grows and becomes a catastrophic effect somewhere else.
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rockenjohnny
from champagne socialism (Australia) on 2004-09-26 22:29 [#01345114]
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yes, i believe in causation. that an effect must be the result of causes, and that those causes must also be subject to causation.
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zaphod
from the metaverse on 2004-09-26 22:34 [#01345115]
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everything happens for a reason, except for the universe, which happened totally at random for no reason at all. life is meaningless, kill yourself.
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sneakattack
on 2004-09-26 22:35 [#01345116]
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causality
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Gwely Mernans
from 23rd century entertainment (Canada) on 2004-09-26 23:02 [#01345120]
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so your only into classical physics i see
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sneakattack
on 2004-09-26 23:11 [#01345122]
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can you read? I mentioned seemingly random radioactive decay. it was all a joke.
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rockenjohnny
from champagne socialism (Australia) on 2004-09-26 23:12 [#01345123]
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ta
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JAroen
from the pineal gland on 2004-09-26 23:41 [#01345125]
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that was the most stupid thing to say
i believe in a.. force behind randomness. controlled randomness one might say. it must be utter bollocks, im sure ill grow over it.
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Gwely Mernans
from 23rd century entertainment (Canada) on 2004-09-26 23:51 [#01345126]
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bah. goodnight
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happy cycling
from berlin on 2004-09-26 23:57 [#01345127]
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everything except this thread
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yann_g
from now on 2004-09-27 01:31 [#01345143]
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everything has a reason, of course. randomness doesn't exist. when you throw a dice, the face you'll see in the end depends on the speed, rotation, weight etc. of the dice and the bouciness and other caracteristics of the surface. same for everything.
because we can't control/understand doesn't mean it's random.
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yann_g
from now on 2004-09-27 01:31 [#01345144]
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i meant 'side' not 'face' ('face' is the french for 'side')
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hyakusen
from 8=============> on 2004-09-27 01:33 [#01345145]
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approved.
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evolume
from seattle (United States) on 2004-09-27 01:39 [#01345147]
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did every reaction have an equal and opposite action??!!
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hyakusen
from 8=============> on 2004-09-27 01:41 [#01345149]
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of course, thats one of the fundamental universe laws.
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bryce_berny
from chronno (Canada) on 2004-09-27 01:43 [#01345151]
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ian malcolm, chaos mathematicionzzz, steppin up, gonna rock the fractal bizznizzz
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thecurbcreeper
from United States on 2004-09-27 17:34 [#01346112]
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ha!
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qrter
from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-09-27 17:40 [#01346116]
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that is almost exactly what it means. random means that the outcome is governed by chance, not so much purpose.
if we could control all elements and thereby, to keep to your example, the outcome of the throw of a die, we would no longer call the outcome random.
as of yet, we can't control the elements and outcome, the system is too complex, that's what we call random.
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hobbes
from age on 2004-09-27 17:40 [#01346117]
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we do need our little explanations don't we, yet we haven't a fucking clue.
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qrter
from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-09-27 17:41 [#01346120]
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absolutely none at all!! :D
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hobbes
from age on 2004-09-27 17:46 [#01346124]
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we are not alone though, plenty of others to kill. :)
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OK
on 2004-09-29 21:10 [#01348546]
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randomness and determinism are just part of a more general thing.. that has no name yet but i'm gonna name as TEYCH.
TEYCH is the reason evrything hapopens for.. teych makes our coincience help us break away from determinism, with aide of uncertainty. teych makes sense and teych is the universe we live in
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The_Funkmaster
from St. John's (Canada) on 2004-09-29 21:19 [#01348555]
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rofl, I love posts like that... :P
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OK
on 2004-09-29 21:20 [#01348557]
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what if there's an infinite amount of elements to control in order to eliminate chance? what if this infinite is non-numerable.
let's now invoque the axiom of choice.
an event E is afectet by a set S of other events wich we control. we know how each event afects E, so if S is finite E is determined by S (so if we know S and S is finite we know the outcome of E). but if S is infinite we can't control (or measure) all the event's in S, so it's impossible to predict the outcome. now what if S is infinite and non-numerable.. the problem get's more complicated.
now supose we can atleast ubicate the elements s of S in some range. then the outcome of the event E can only be described in terms of probability.
we can only know and control a finite amount of events in S that will afect E.
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OK
on 2004-09-29 21:22 [#01348559]
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in conclusion there are systems that are so complex that we can call without doubt not determined.
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