RE: The place of rage and hate
November 19, 2014 at 2:48 am
(This post was last modified: November 19, 2014 at 2:49 am by Surgenator.)
(November 19, 2014 at 1:13 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: If someone held a long, thin pole standing upright and asked you to predict which direction it would fall when they let go, assuming there is no wind and everything surrounding it appears perfectly symmetrical, would the ensuing results be random?LOL. This reminded me of a physics problem I had to solve. Predict how long it would take for a perfectly upright pencil standin on its tip to fall using Heisenberg uncertainty principle? Depending on the assumptions you make, the answer ranges from milliseconds to minutes.
So the answer to your question is yes it will be random.
Quote:Or would there be, in principle, determinants that might allow an intelligence privy to the current state of every atom in the area to accurately predict the outcome?I think that would be a local hidden variable. So most likely no. There is a possibility of a non-local hidden variable.
Quote:I don't see any major difference in this scenario and yours involving decisions that will be inevitably influenced one way or another by a multitude of factors that we are unable to consider.This is exactly why Schopenhauer position is unfalsifiable. The experimentor can never claim that they've taken ALL variables into account. So the claim of a missing variable can always be taken.