(urth) 5HC : Skinner, Turing and yet more Laplace
maru
marudubshinki at gmail.com
Fri Feb 18 10:25:01 PST 2005
Iorwerth Thomas wrote:
>> Infinite monkeys would type out this conversation, as well as the
>> unanswerable rebuttals to both >our arguments.
>
>
> Yep.
>
>> Incidentally, this whole tangent about predictions reminds me
>> ineluctably of the 'Dune' series.
>> I never did figure oput what frank Herbert was saying about
>> predestination and free will in those works.
>>
>
> You don't have free will unless you're part of Leto's breeding
> program? :)
>
> Iorwerth
Maybe only if you were a descendant of Siona?
~Maru
I dumped too much cinnamon on my morning toast!
Now I will be locked by prescient vision into one universe fore'er!
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