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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 11 2013 @ 08:05 AM EDT |
I believe a finite number of particles in a finite amount of
space has a finite amount of information associated with it.
Even accounting for the quantum probability distributions, it
is a finite amount of information. An incomprehensible amount
of information, yes, but not infinite.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Tyro on Saturday, May 11 2013 @ 08:39 PM EDT |
So you're asserting that analog computers aren't computers? Or that matter is
continuous? Or what?
Saying "humans aren't deterministic" is an assertion without proof,
and without reasonable plausibility. What you can reasonably say is "I
can't predict, in detail, what a person would do in that situation.", but
that same statement is true of any sufficiently complex system with both
positive and negative feedback loops. (I'm excluding failure modes from
consideration, but they just make the argument that humans are non-deterministic
weaker.)
FWIW, many people can't predict the way that even quite simple programs will
act, if the input datasets never repeat (as those for people and other animals
don't). And nobody is much good at predicting how a complex program will act in
such a case unless it was designed to be easily predictable.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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