From: Tony Williams 

I think you missed the point. While something may be predictable according
to a set of rules that doesn't help much if the rules and data are so
numerous that prediction runs slower than actual events. That's the problem
with systems like the weather; once you have enough data the complexity of
the calculations means that even theoretically it's not possible to predict
in advance of events.

Uncertainty is a diffferent beast entirely.

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Tony

Geo wrote:
> Actually it's not, what it is is a good explanation of the process
> intelligent people go thru when they realize that even though the universe
> may be predictable, it will never be predictable by intelligent beings who
> live in that universe. You cannot predict a complex system where the
> predicting is part of that system.
>
> That realization however doesn't mean the system isn't predictable or that
> future actions have not already been comitted to happen.
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> Geo.
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> "Tony Williams"  wrote in message
> news:43861d02$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>Here's a link to a good explanation of unpredictability:
>>
>>http://mysite.verizon.net/res2216j/wonder/id72.html
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>>Tony
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