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not on an infinitely small scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle on a macro scale, wit
by opportune 8y ago
not on an infinitely small scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle
on a macro scale, with a reasonable margin of error, sure. The problem comes when small scale effects begin to have large scale consequences: human thought might be chaotic enough (in the physical, not colloquial sense) to be like this. In fact there is a whole branch of physics/math that deals with this issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory
- skate22 8y agoI'm no expert on chaos theory, or physics, or much of anything, but directly from your 2nd link: "Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future." Seems to support part* of my theory more than defeat it. Perhaps our current understanding of existence does not allow us to predict the future state of complex systems due to our level of uncertanty at a micro scale. Perhaps some day we will come to a better understanding that will. Surely we don't have the full picture yet, but i think we have a lot more reasoning to do before I will accept that existence is unreasonable