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Old 03-24-2006, 04:15 PM   #3 (permalink)
nezmot
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Yeah, it's well known that purely deterministic laws can have non-deterministic consequences - I'm referring of course to things like the three-body problem, Lorenz strange attractors, Godel's incompleteness theory, Conway's game of life and others.

What all that boils down to is that whether the universe is 'determined' or not is immaterial, because it is impossible to predict to the level of detail required what is going to happen, before tiny (and completely unavoidable) errors balloon into orders of significance far beyond the original scope of the calculations.

Thus, and without any crazy talk about QT, I suggest that the question is flawed. Or if pushed, both determinacy and free will are preserved.
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