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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (24405)	7/7/2006 7:29:31 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 28931

Definition: Effect... It's really hard to communicate when you equivocate over definitions. There were modifiers and qualifiers around that word for a reason, and that is because I could not find a single word that conveyed the correct concept in the same context. I can even explain it, but you are likely to reject my explanations. You might try again. If you write something once it is like giving out a grainy snapshot, and easily misinterpreted. If you write it again a slightly different way then the ambiguity of language may be cancelled, and a clearer picture of the inderlying idea emerges. Words and definitions only exist for ideas that we already share and agree upon, anything new requires a new way of saying it. --- Your earlier post on ripples and dispersion seemed to me to be an explanation of the Shannon limit of information as it gets mixed into noise. I accept that as valid, but I don't see it as the be-all and end-all of the universe because the universe contains information, but is not only information (unless we are really a simulation and not a "real" universe). ---- If things that once were, can seem to have gone into nothingness, the reverse is also true. I think this is true if and only if the universe is deterministic ( i.e. fated ). In a deterministic universe there is no cause-->effect, there is cause<-->effect. What I mean by this is that for any effect you can absolutely determine what caused it (assuming you have sufficient computing power). I don't think this accurately describes our universe, I don't think the future has already been determined. TP