RE: Determinism Is Self Defeating
July 15, 2013 at 5:39 pm
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2013 at 5:39 pm by bennyboy.)
(July 15, 2013 at 3:34 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: It's not just that we don't have good enough data but as I also said: There is inherent uncertainty with observations matching predictions because the act of observing changes the results because of how observation works in the first place.When I hear, in the same conversation, "There is instrinsic uncertainty in establishing the state of systems," and "Our best evidence points to the universe being deterministic," I have a problem with that.
It's not being unfalsifiable, as falsifying a prediction would be accomplished (in science) by showing that the results lie far from the range predicted. E.g. Refinement of our knowledge regarding the age of the universe didn't falsify the prediction exactly, because it fell well within the margin of error.