Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 19:39:40 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: perhaps@yes.no (Eivind Eklund), nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newest Pentium bug (fatal) Message-ID: <199711120239.TAA01134@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199711120149.SAA19930@usr04.primenet.com> References: <199711112339.AAA23291@bitbox.follo.net> <199711120149.SAA19930@usr04.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert writes: > > I disagree that humans are a non-predictable system. There is chaos, > > sure, but there are clearly predictable properties. Which information > > people have is one; health is another. (Discussed below) > > The entire history of science is the conversion of "chaotic" systems > into predictable systems. Now your being way too general. Science is the attempt to 'model' the behavior of complex systems. If you think that 'chaotic' == 'complex' then yes, but some systems are inherently chaotic and can not be modeled. > The only thing that chaos truly describes > is that for which we have yet to derive a predictive model. And some systems are entirely chaotic, and so therefore have *NO* predictive model. Especially systems that involve innovations and unique thought cannot be modeled, since any system which can create something new can easily be proven to not be modeled. Natehome | help
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