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When it comes right down to it isn't everything either 100% or 0%. It's already been predetermined by the laws of math, chemistry and physics. Just because you aren't aware of every variable doesn't mean they don't exist. When you give a number other than 0% or 100% what you are really saying is the % of how sure you are. Coin flip outcomes are never random but based on a series of variables; size of the thumb, shape of the thumb, shape of the nail. position of coin on the nail, muscle force used, how far the thumb moved, tilt of the arm, wind resistance, ect. You could say "oh the movement the participant chooses to use is random but when it comes right down to it that's probably predetermined too.
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probability is based on our limited knowledge
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>>8687953
>When it comes right down to it isn't everything either 100% or 0%.
Everything believed is likely false.
Everything considerately and sincerely thought out is likely true or not far from it.
Lots of stuff is irrelevant.
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Is this a thinly veiled Texhnolyze thread?
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Men in their arrogance claim to understand the nature of creation, and devise elaborate theories to describe its behavior. But always they discover in the end that God was quite a bit more clever than they thought.
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>>8688130
it's another retarded determinism thread
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>>8687953
Chaos theory shows that deterministic systems are not necessarily predictable, and considering that there is a physical limit to the precision with which we can make measurements (uncertainty principle), and we can never have precise knowledge of our physical and mathematical constants, we cannot escape unpredictability, even in a deterministic universe.
Worse still, the universe is inherently non-deterministic, as randomness is intrinsic to quantum mechanics.
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>>8687953
Bell's theorem, EPR paradox, etc., now fuck off
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>>8687953
When it comes down to it, everything is 100%
We are just estimating how likely that 100% is using limited knowledge of the present to predict unforseen future
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