perhaps this area of mathamatics should be left alone, I would rather think I have a girlfriend becuase we love each other then our equations match or something.
Knowing the equations to the choices you would make, does not make those choices any less an expression of free will. The math doesn't cause your actions, it only describes them. For example, if you know how fast you are driving, you can calculate how far you will go in two hours. However, the ability to calculate your travel in no way causes you to travel - that is still controlled by your free will. Imagine the fuel savings if this was possible though!
this is really a deep issue, because if one believes as I do, that God exists and that human beings have souls, I do not believe such things like true love could be explained by numbers.
It is not at all uncommon for two people to get on fine, even living together, without being married, and for all hell to break loose when they get married. Sometimes it starts with the engagement.
Also, these equations will not reduce the awe and mystery of the actual reality of truely deep phenomena. It just gives us some better handles and knobs to grab hold of the small islands of stability and regularity and talk about them in ways that can lead to productive solutions. If you do fall in love and g
One of Doug Adams's "other" books, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency has an interesting take on mathematics and life. The main character proposes that our artistic side is actually a mathematical genius that can see the formulas that underly all of life. He uses the analogy of catching a ball. A flying ball follows physical laws, and it's trajectory is no simple matter to calculate. Initial speed, airflow resistence, effects of gravity, wind, etc all affect its flight. The calculations required to det
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a) a world where every action is calculated/planned/predicted
b) a world where we feel that we make our own choices, based on our own free will
what would technology like that do to religion? what about government, will political races be decided by whos got the bigger computer?
if it comes to a, so be it.. but I would prefer b
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I do not believe that such things like true love could be explained by humans with numbers.
but then again, numbers may be the only hope a geek has with true love . . .
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Also, these equations will not reduce the awe and mystery of the actual reality of truely deep phenomena. It just gives us some better handles and knobs to grab hold of the small islands of stability and regularity and talk about them in ways that can lead to productive solutions. If you do fall in love and g
Not exactly 42, but the same source... (Score:3, Interesting)