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A belief is an act of conjuring complete information from incomplete information. I think all beliefs must come from some nonzero amount of evidence. They seem
by bigdict 5y ago
A belief is an act of conjuring complete information from incomplete information.
I think all beliefs must come from some nonzero amount of evidence. They seem absurd when evidence from one domain is transferred to a different domain in order to support some statement.
I think everything is deterministic because I can't imagine true randomness. It's a concept we use to represent lack of information.
I don't have a good grasp of quantum physics and I think every process described as random is like a coin flip: the outcome seems "random", but in reality you would be able to predict it if you had 1. enough information about the initial conditions 2. sufficiently accurate knowledge of the presumably deterministic physical laws governing the process.
- 8bitsrule 5y agoDisbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. — Tom Robbins
- tommiegannert 5y agoMy pet question with quantum physics (of which I know very little) is related. It seems simpler to assume we just don't know, rather than attributing it to the unusual property of true unpredictability. We already know that a chaotic dynamic system is difficult to predict, and even encryption algorithms we conjure up have very high entropy. So why isn't that enough here?