John Frostell

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The predicting computer

January 05, 2017 at 08:11 33 comments Metaphysics & Epistemology

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if you must obey that schedule then determinism is a fact. If you can do whatever you want with it - it's a prediction that may or may not be true, ju...

January 05, 2017 at 12:43

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Well if something is predictable than it must be determinstic. At least if we want certainty in our predictions. The other way around I agree with you...

January 05, 2017 at 12:14

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I agree with you on the following * Our knowledge on laws of nature comes from observations of the past or present. * If we are interested in knowing ...

January 05, 2017 at 12:09

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It's allready answered above, but I was not talking about observations but rather laws of nature. So if everything is determined from those laws of na...

January 05, 2017 at 10:10

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Thank you m-theory. I suspected it was an old idea. If such prediction is impossible however, than I would say let's live in the illusion of a non-det...

January 05, 2017 at 08:53