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Originally Posted by Unright
How can you program a philosophy?
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Well, technically, that's what forecast modelling is. They use it for weather all the time. A forecast is, after all, a prediction, NOT a certainty.
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Originally Posted by MrSelfDestruct
If you were able to take into account every single event that has gone into the creation of today's world, and predict the outcome with absolute certainty, you will have created God. I think it's fairly accurate to say that doing so is impossible.
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So then, God is only God so much as God is omniscient? A computer that is omniscient is not omnipresent. Is not a quality of any good god omnipresence?
BTW, I started typing your name MSD and recapitalized it as MrsElfDestruct... sorry, I was amused.
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Originally Posted by kinsaj
The whole concept is interesting, but impossible.
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It amuses me the cavalier fashion that people use the word impossible, even in this day and age. Frankly, humanity and science prevent just about anything from being "impossible". Think back 1000, 100 or even 10 years ago to what people thought were "impossible" that we do today. Flight? Computers? Robots? Space travel? Microwave ovens? The radio? Television? Satellites? Cell phones? Pacemakers? DNA? Genetic manipulation and the genome project? Gene therapy? Pure water? Seriously folks, some of our more mundane "inventions" by todays standards were the impossibilities of a millenia ago.