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To: DMaA who wrote (36834)	3/4/1999 12:09:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 67261

Or are you talking about something other that initial condition differences? This goes back to the issue of determinism. If as is commonly stated about Newton's laws for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, that is to say if the results of an action are completely and perfectly calculatable then the universe is deterministic. In a deterministic universe things may be so complicated that we have no hope of actually figuring out the result, but that result will have an exact solution none the less. This means that all history and the future are fated. All events from the exact time a leaf will fall to fission of an atom were determined at the time the universe began. There is no free will, we will do as we were fated, as if the universe were a simulation. Quantum theory suggests that there is a tiny bit of randomness at the core of each interaction. Randomness is more than uncertainty about parameters of an interaction, it means that two otherwise identical interactions can differ by an unknown and unknowable amount. With even the tiniest randomness our fate is in our hands and not destiny. PT