On Jan 25, 2008 7:32 PM, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nonlinear systems are fundamentally unpredictable. We can't know > the future
Eugen...beware of the words "can't", "never"...and their families....it might happen....did someone in, say 1750, seriously imagine our style of life now, would be possible? Did I imagine, even thirty years ago, that I would instantly communicate my thoughts with someone far away, whom I have never met? I "never" say that something will never happen!...that's part of the wonder of life for me. Deepa. On Jan 25, 2008 7:32 PM, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > >
