From: Rik van Riel (riel@nl.linux.org)
Date: Thu Oct 28 1999 - 13:52:21 MDT
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Bryan Moss wrote:
> Rob Harris wrote:
>
> > And I assert that probability exists only as a fix for
> > uncertainty in systems one wishes to predict that have too
> > many variables of too high a complexity to track.
>
> Or maybe certainty exists because we do not have the power
> to calculate probability to an appropriate level.
The amount of information that can be extracted from the
universe is finite. Heisenberg prevents us from knowing
more than a certain amount of what's going on.
This will mean that the uncertainty will persist and we
will need to keep calculating with probabilities.
Rik -- the flu hits, the flu hits, the flu hits, more ...
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