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pan6467 · 09-03-2004, 06:28 AM

I don't want to know what would happen in the universe that would be foolish.

But, I truly believe that a computer programmed with all known manmade history, known (not conjectured natural history) and philosophy inputted totally as fact with no bias, could in theory predict (with great accuracy at first) from examples how man will make his future and reactions. However, once the accuracy is discovered then it becomes a question of free- will and changing the prediction or mass hysteria which makes it a self fulfilling prophecy.

There are many factors that would also render predictions tough, such as if God were to intercede because man did this, a computer powerful enough to run such a program, the speed at which the program ran, (for example if running the future it takes only seconds for 100 years to pass can you narrow that 100 years down into a yearly analysis? Or would the prediction be for that 100 years and all that happened in between to the computer would be irrelevant. If that were the case then the experiment destroyed its own genuiness and the prediction would probably be inaccurate based solely on the fact that in that 100 years, something would happen that the computer had not considered in its prediction.)

If the computer ran each day in real time there would be no prediction just more input of fact into it.

So, I believe while there is tremendous potential it would be useless to try, at present. There is a time though, I believe, when man will be able to do this and perhaps society will be based by what the computer dictates.

09-03-2004, 06:28 AM	#14 (permalink)
pan6467 Lennonite Priest Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA	I don't want to know what would happen in the universe that would be foolish. But, I truly believe that a computer programmed with all known manmade history, known (not conjectured natural history) and philosophy inputted totally as fact with no bias, could in theory predict (with great accuracy at first) from examples how man will make his future and reactions. However, once the accuracy is discovered then it becomes a question of free- will and changing the prediction or mass hysteria which makes it a self fulfilling prophecy. There are many factors that would also render predictions tough, such as if God were to intercede because man did this, a computer powerful enough to run such a program, the speed at which the program ran, (for example if running the future it takes only seconds for 100 years to pass can you narrow that 100 years down into a yearly analysis? Or would the prediction be for that 100 years and all that happened in between to the computer would be irrelevant. If that were the case then the experiment destroyed its own genuiness and the prediction would probably be inaccurate based solely on the fact that in that 100 years, something would happen that the computer had not considered in its prediction.) If the computer ran each day in real time there would be no prediction just more input of fact into it. So, I believe while there is tremendous potential it would be useless to try, at present. There is a time though, I believe, when man will be able to do this and perhaps society will be based by what the computer dictates. __________________ 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?"