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pan6467 · 09-01-2004, 03:43 PM

Not sure where to place this. I guess Philosophy soooo....

Ok, I'm sure with all these computer geeks throughout the world someone else has though about this. If not I am a sheer GOD and GENIUS and all shall bow down to me.... (slight humor there, hope you understand.)

So I'm thinking what if..... a person or group of people can program a computer with all known natural, weather and man made history and program it in a totally unbiased manner. (Such as Hitler and Naziism existed, this is what happened.... just facts, no opinion about how evil it was.) You program all philosophies and religions equally, not programming in one as right and the others wrong.

Then you ran the program to predict the future of man and the Earth using it's database to form what will happen from what has happened.

My question is 3 fold:

Is it truly possible to do, or by man's nature would we bias the experiment and therefore render it useless?

How accurate do you think it would be in terms of nature and society?

And if made public and the accuracy for the first year is amazingly high, based on man's free will would it be possible for man to change the outcome?

And if you say that outcome could be changed because of man's free will and you are religious, then is it not possible to change the Bible's ending (Revelations)?

Or can the future not be changed because mass hysteria would make it a self fulfilling prophecy?

Just curious, have been thinking about trying to find a computer programmer that would want to try this with me. But I also realize the time required would take forever to program.

09-01-2004, 03:43 PM	#1 (permalink)
pan6467 Lennonite Priest Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA	Philosophical question, Computer, or just Gen.? Not sure where to place this. I guess Philosophy soooo.... Ok, I'm sure with all these computer geeks throughout the world someone else has though about this. If not I am a sheer GOD and GENIUS and all shall bow down to me.... (slight humor there, hope you understand.) So I'm thinking what if..... a person or group of people can program a computer with all known natural, weather and man made history and program it in a totally unbiased manner. (Such as Hitler and Naziism existed, this is what happened.... just facts, no opinion about how evil it was.) You program all philosophies and religions equally, not programming in one as right and the others wrong. Then you ran the program to predict the future of man and the Earth using it's database to form what will happen from what has happened. My question is 3 fold: Is it truly possible to do, or by man's nature would we bias the experiment and therefore render it useless? How accurate do you think it would be in terms of nature and society? And if made public and the accuracy for the first year is amazingly high, based on man's free will would it be possible for man to change the outcome? And if you say that outcome could be changed because of man's free will and you are religious, then is it not possible to change the Bible's ending (Revelations)? Or can the future not be changed because mass hysteria would make it a self fulfilling prophecy? Just curious, have been thinking about trying to find a computer programmer that would want to try this with me. But I also realize the time required would take forever to program. __________________ I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"