On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 07:27:46PM +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote: > It just amazes me...after all these millenia, the human race still > always wants to have the future in the present. Whether it was the
Given that the future might bring many things, immortality included, that's kinda understanable. > palmists of the past, or finger readers of today....we want that edge > that we think that we will get by knowing, or accurately predicting, > what will happen. And as always, I think, predictions will never be > accurate enough to be called a science...no matter what is being > predicted, the weather, war, or artistic abilities. What do you think > the ratio of Ramanujam's mother's fingers was? I wonder if the day > will come when some invention, some discovery, will reveal that > greatest mystery of all, the future, to the human race....it would Nonlinear systems are fundamentally unpredictable. We can't know the future, but in vague outlines, and in specific, degenerate cases. > impact human beings in ways that I cannot even begin to visualize. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
