5HC : Skinner, Turing and yet more Laplace

maru · 18 Feb 2005, 10:25 · from 2005-February.txt.gz

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From: marudubshinki at gmail.com (maru)
Date: Fri Feb 18 10:25:17 2005
Subject: (urth) 5HC : Skinner, Turing and yet more Laplace
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Iorwerth Thomas wrote:

>> Infinite monkeys would type out this conversation, as well as the 
>> unanswerable rebuttals to both >our arguments.
>
>
> Yep.
>
>> Incidentally, this whole tangent about predictions reminds me 
>> ineluctably of the 'Dune' series.
>> I never did figure oput what frank Herbert was saying about 
>> predestination and free will in those works.
>>
>
> You don't have free will unless you're part of Leto's breeding 
> program?  :)
>
> Iorwerth

Maybe only if you were a descendant of Siona?

~Maru
I dumped too much cinnamon on my morning toast!
Now I will be locked by prescient vision into one universe fore'er!

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