VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Steve|DATE|1382957238|CONTENT|Is he a physicist?

Basic Physics Lesson 1 – Chaotic systems ARE completely deterministic. There is NO RANDOMNESS. To quote the man Lorenz himself:

 [blockquote]Chaos [is] when the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future [/blockquote] 

In other words, there is no deviation from the Newtonian deterministic model in a chaotic system, only that it is very, very sensitive. Set it going with Initial Condition A, and you will always, always, always get Outcome X. What defines chaos is that Outcome X is no guide to what will result from Initial Condition Nearly A. This makes it very hard for science to deal with, but not harder for philosophy to handle. There’s no more room for free will under Chaos Theory than under Newtonian Determinism. Philosophically speaking, they are one and the same.

If it’s randomness he wants, he needs the Quantum world. But he (presumably) knows that the very laws he would be quoting to find non-determinism in this realm preclude EVERYTHING from determining the future. If god is exempt, the law isn’t a law.|IP-ADDRESS|10.0.119.108, 217.36.222.79|MODERATIONFLAG|