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Do You Believe Everything Happens for A Reason?
 

offline ChildrenTalking from United States on 2004-09-26 22:08 [#01345108]
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or is it just funny coincidences :)


 

offline KainiIndustries from over the roof floats billy on 2004-09-26 22:08 [#01345109]
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no

life is completely random


 

offline 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..


 

offline 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.


 

offline 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.


 

offline 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.


 

offline sneakattack on 2004-09-26 22:35 [#01345116]
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causality


 

offline 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


 

offline 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.


 

offline rockenjohnny from champagne socialism (Australia) on 2004-09-26 23:12 [#01345123]
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ta



 

offline 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.


 

offline Gwely Mernans from 23rd century entertainment (Canada) on 2004-09-26 23:51 [#01345126]
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bah.
goodnight


 

offline happy cycling from berlin on 2004-09-26 23:57 [#01345127]
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everything except this thread


 

offline 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.


 

offline 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')


 

offline hyakusen from 8=============> on 2004-09-27 01:33 [#01345145]
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approved.


 

offline 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??!!


 

offline hyakusen from 8=============> on 2004-09-27 01:41 [#01345149]
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of course, thats one of the fundamental universe laws.


 

offline 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


 

offline thecurbcreeper from United States on 2004-09-27 17:34 [#01346112]
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ha!


 

offline 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.


 

offline 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.


 

offline 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


 

offline hobbes from age on 2004-09-27 17:46 [#01346124]
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we are not alone though, plenty of others to kill. :)


 

offline 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


 

offline 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


 

offline 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.



 

offline 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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