[Platt] I don't know the difference between Newtonian determinism and plain old determinism but in any case determinism works just fine for me in everyday life. I eat when I'm hungry and drink when I'm dry.
[Krimel] Newton was attempting to construct rules that hold with 100 percent probability. Most would say he succeeded very well. But causation in the Newtonian sense is only a subset of a probabilistic view that holds that not all of the relevant causes in a given set of conditions may be specified in advance. [Platt} As far as I can tell there is nothing in your worldview that is outside the range of probabilities. [Krimel] True enough but a great many things are highly unlikely. Ham's impersonal big daddy in the sky for example, or the likelihood of Platt voting for Hillary Clinton. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
