Posted: Nov 29, 2016 10:29 am
ughaibu wrote:But, you yourself would be part of that future. Borges' map, et fucking cetera. If your behaviour is determined, then so is creationism, so are all other mistakes, and there is no independent way to distinguish the mistakes from the truth.GrahamH wrote:In a determined world without free will predicting the future would be possible. If you can discover the rules and measure the initial conditions you can predict the future.
Nobody said prediction should be exact. Any system with feedback might have chaotic behaviour under determinism. Various problems don't have analytic solutions, but proeed according to deterministic processes.
In a determined world without free will predicting the future would be as possible (or more so) as it is in this world.