[Krimel] > When you and your friend agree to meet you are sharing a purpose. But as you > say "a lot of things can intervene." That is chance. Everything that happens > between your agreement to met and the time of the meeting will be purely > deterministic.
Which is it: chance or deterministic? What if I had scheduled another meeting in conflict with the first? [Krimmel] > You win a zillion dollars and forget your friends. If I won a zillion dollars, I wouldn't forget my friends. (They wouldn't let me.) [Krimmel] > Given any set of unique conditions there are many possible results. A unique > result will occur... Aren't these 2 statements incompatible? [Krimmel] > What chance gives us is causation and determinism with limited predictability. What accounts for the limited predictability: the many possible results or our ignorance of the unique result? [Krimmel] > IMHO this is why I identify chance with DQ. It is why I think Pirsig was > pointing at a > moon he did not see clearly enough. But mightn't this be where you & Pirsig are in agreement? Craig 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/
