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Re:A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Ev... by adrianN on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @03:26AM (#14095542)
So far we're doing a decent job of understanding the design of the universe. Most things you interact with follow the rules we figured out so well that you'd be really hard pressed to find an experiment to find a difference between prediction and reality. That makes many people confident that we can figure out the missing pieces as well.
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Re:A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Ev... by goatlover on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @05:23AM (#14096056)
Such as experiments in economics and sociology?
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Re:A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Ev... by simonh on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @07:29AM (#14096637)
It depends on whether you think economics and sociology are fundamental to the physics of the universe or merely emergent phenomena. It's quite possible to understand all the fundamental rules of a system while having great difficulty working out all the consequences of those rules at a macroscopic level.
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Re:A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Ev... by ThomPete on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @06:12AM (#14096255)
design requires intent.
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Re:A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Ev... by adrianN on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @07:20AM (#14096592)
You're technically correct. s/design/structure/?
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Re:A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Ev... by ThomPete on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @07:48AM (#14096729)
If there is no intetnt there is no purpose of structure.
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Re:A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Ev... by adrianN on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @09:07AM (#14097242)
Not every structure needs a purpose though.
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Re:A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Ev... by ThomPete on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @09:40AM (#14097527)
What structure doesent?
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Re:A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Ev... by optimuspaul on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @10:02AM (#14097751)
just a stab in the dark... a rock? It has structure, but what is it's purpose?
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Re:A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Ev... by ThomPete on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @11:39AM (#14098727)
structure to us not structure in itself.
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