You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows

[ravi]

Luke Weiger wrote:
> 
> My deterministic intuitions make me inclined to agree.  But people way
> smarter than I am have told me that we can't know whether or not every
> physical event has a determinate cause.
> 

yes, "not every" event of course, but what about particular physical
events. i guess it also goes to what level of causes you are examining...


> 
>>But like most such systems that involve more
>>than a few entities, it is too hopelessly complicated to calculate.
> 
> Any more concise way of saying "too hopelessly complicated to calculate"?
> The mathemeticians have already appropriated "chaos"
>

well perhaps you can steal some of their terminology and just say "NP
hard" or something equivalent.

	--ravi