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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: E who wrote (2920)10/29/2000 5:47:58 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) of 28931
 
a distinction without a difference,
There is a difference. I maintain that even if your knowledge base included everything, absolutely everything, that the future would be unpredictable. Much of this comes from QM but it basicly says that every action leads to a re-action plus a bit of random change. It more precisely says that actions lead to a probability of reactions and the outcome is not known until it actually happens. This random change not only cannot be predicted, but it can't be repeated. It's not just an error in measurement or an inability affect multiple items at the same instant, it really means that part of the effect in a cause-effect relationship is unknowable and well, random, and must be unknowable even by superbeings whether or not they use the information, or the future is in fact fixed.
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