Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!NOTE.NSF.GOV!fbaube From: fbaube@NOTE.NSF.GOV (Fred Baube) Newsgroups: comp.society.futures Subject: Re: The future of AI Message-ID: <8807051413.aa01556@note.note.nsf.gov> Date: 5 Jul 88 18:12:46 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 12 Thomas Edwards: > .. The tenet of Chaos is that small changes in initial > parameters can have incredibly huge effect on non-linear systems, > even seeming random though _they are deterministic_. > Furthermore, it states that due to this, micro level deterministic > events creat undpredicatble large level realities .. Can the precipitating/determining events themselves be caused deterministically if they're operating at a quantum level ? Couldn't observable macro events be determined (chaotically) by probabilistic events ?