(May 8, 2016 at 7:20 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: It is relevant because we can never escape causality and that means we do live in a deterministic universe. Do you see anything wrong with that line of thought?
For sake of argument, we will assume causality is real. If quantum randomness is truly random then 'this' neuron might fire before 'that' neuron which would be unpredictable. Even though there is "cause and effect", the initiation is non-deterministic.
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God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy