RE: Determinism
June 20, 2010 at 12:23 am
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2010 at 12:29 am by WingedFoe.)
Everything is determined by past events.
So if a machine were built which knew everything that was happening at that present moment, it would be able to predict everything in the future. That is, assuming the machine knew all laws of physics known and unknown to humankind.
Another way of looking at it is that the entire universe's fate was determined at the moment of the big bang.
So if a machine were built which knew everything that was happening at that present moment, it would be able to predict everything in the future. That is, assuming the machine knew all laws of physics known and unknown to humankind.
Another way of looking at it is that the entire universe's fate was determined at the moment of the big bang.