(urth) 5HC : Skinner, Turing and yet more Laplace

[maru]

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!