----- Original Message ----- From: "Miles Jackson" <cqmv at pdx.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 9:54 PM Subject: Re: Why we will need lawyers anyway
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> On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Ian Murray wrote:
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Luke Weiger" <lweiger at umich.edu>
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> > > What, then, are the complex multi-variable systems that have eluded
> > > prediction designated as? There must be a term for why we can't
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> > > what the weather will be like in a year's time.
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> > > -- Luke
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> > Indeterminacy.
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> > Ian
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> This is an update of Moliere's quip about the soporific virtues of
> opium, right?
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> Miles
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Moliere was feigning an explanation. Luke was asking for a term that named a slice/region of future. Unless one accepts the 'block interpretation' of Einsteinian space-time, the weather in a year's time does not exist. If one does accept the 'block interpretation' the weather of 4-10-2003 is still inaccessible to us. I've been going through my stuff looking for a quote concerning the ignorance/indeterminateness issue I know I have that fit's Luke's query real well but I haven't found it yet. Either way, if Luke has the access and the time, Stephen Kellert's 'In the Wake of Chaos' and Edward Lorenz' -of the 'butterfly's wings fame- 'The Essence of Chaos' are great reads on the topic.
Ian