From: "Robert Comer" 

> When you show me a cow that can predict the next solar eclipse then I'll
> believe it, until then due to my experience with cows I have to believe
> that
> solar eclipses are unpredictable to a cow.

Of course they can't do that, they're aren't that intelligent, but they are
more than just rocks.

> My theory is that the future is 100% predictable but because of the
> complexity of the universe and our limited intelligence we have about as
> much chance at predicting it as a cow.

There's also chance. (and quantum dynamics)

--
Bob Comer


"Geo"  wrote in message
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> When you show me a cow that can predict the next solar eclipse then I'll
> believe it, until then due to my experience with cows I have to believe
> that
> solar eclipses are unpredictable to a cow.
>
> My theory is that the future is 100% predictable but because of the
> complexity of the universe and our limited intelligence we have about as
> much chance at predicting it as a cow.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:4380a451{at}w3.nls.net...
>> You give cows far to little credit, they solve problems too as well as
>> any
>> other animal, that just means that they can react and choose.
>>
>> --
>> Bob Comer
>>
>>
>> "Geo"  wrote in message
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>> > "John Beckett"
 wrote in message
>> > news:ovl0o11f6hj6b4p0peoamr84ikot6rmoq8{at}4ax.com...
>> >
>> >> > Is a system that responds in a predictable and
logical way a sign of
>> >> > Intelligence or is intelligence a result of a system
that responds
>> >> > in
> a
>> >> > predictable and logical way?
>> >>
>> >> Now that is a really interesing question.
>> >>
>> >> Certainly, I would guess that it would be hard to have
intelligence if
>> >> the
>> >> universe frequently behaved in unpredictable ways.
>> >
>> > Just to make it more interesting, isn't it intelligence that defines
>> > predictable? I mean to a cow the simplest problem is unpredictable
>> > where
>> > to
>> > us it's perfectly predictable.
>> >
>> > So we have to define predictable based on whether or not it followes a
>> > logical set of rules not whether or not we can predict it at this point
> in
>> > our development. Example is computers today allow us to predict things
>> > that
>> > we couldn't have possibly predicted just 60 years ago.
>> >
>> > Geo.
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>

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