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From: "Keith L. Breinholt" <kbreinho@bigfoot.com>
Subject: Re: Consciousness, Spirit, Life, Matter, Energy, and all the other stuff...
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Grave Xavier wrote:
> 
> Pawel Biernacki (LVS-HIWI) wrote:
> /zip/
> > Haywood Jablome wrote:
> /zip/
> > > Version 1. Intelligence, life, and consciousness are all made up of
> > > atoms, particles, energy and fields.
> 
> > Right (IMO).
> Ok.
> > > In this case, the future is
> > > pre-set
> > Wrong (IMO) or not quite right. Someone could think you are try to
> > suggest determinism or mechanicism here. On the other hand - right,
> > ( I mean the world as a Markovian process ).
> 
> I don't agree with both of you.
> Didn't you hear about Heiseinberg inequalities ?
> That you can't know at the same time the position and
> momemtum of a given particle with an infinite precision.
> This is quantum mechanics. In this way a set of possible future is set.
> And we can't predict it for the moment, except for particuliar
> modelisation : you can predict, for example, the probability of an event
> in particles physic.

Yes, the Heiseinberg principle allows us to do some hand waving to state 
that we don't have a clue about what just happened or will happen in some 
circumstances.  

Is that intelligence or what?!  :-)

-- 
Keith L. Breinholt
kbreinho@bigfoot.com
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