RE: Determinism Is Self Defeating
July 14, 2013 at 2:35 am
(This post was last modified: July 14, 2013 at 2:36 am by pocaracas.)
A chaotic system is a deterministic system. It's just extremely sensitive to the initial conditions.
That is,a small change to the initial conditions leads to a dramatically different outcome.
Just like the coin toss experiment: we'd require accurate knowledge of the energy transferred to the coin and that is not available if we use a finger... unless you train it really well...
Standard random number generators use equations which operate on the principle of chaos:a small change in the seed value less to a completely different result, a so called pseudo random value arises.
The appearance of randomness is then an illusion... I have no reason to consider that natural systems'apparent randomness is that much different.
Hence, as it is with the god hypothesis, I attribute it a very low probability of being correct and assume the opposite: determinism.
That is,a small change to the initial conditions leads to a dramatically different outcome.
Just like the coin toss experiment: we'd require accurate knowledge of the energy transferred to the coin and that is not available if we use a finger... unless you train it really well...
Standard random number generators use equations which operate on the principle of chaos:a small change in the seed value less to a completely different result, a so called pseudo random value arises.
The appearance of randomness is then an illusion... I have no reason to consider that natural systems'apparent randomness is that much different.
Hence, as it is with the god hypothesis, I attribute it a very low probability of being correct and assume the opposite: determinism.
