From: John Beckett 

"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
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> > Certainly, I would guess that it would be hard to have intelligence if the
> > universe frequently behaved in unpredictable ways.
>
> Why?  Quantum mechanics?

A little cryptic for me. Are you speculating about why the universe might
behave unpredictably, or why a result of being unpredictable could be a
lack of intelligent lifeforms.

I was just playing Geo's thought experiment and remarking that IF the
universe frequently did unpredictable things (e.g. 2 cups of water
sometimes is twice as heavy as 1 cup, and sometimes is randomly some other
weight), then there would be very little reason to be intelligent because
you couldn't make sense of what was going on.

It's only because our environment DOES behave rationally that being
rational is an advantage.

John

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