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Posted by: A Bit Of Zero
This thread would have appealed to me more if it was written with crayons. Posted by: King Dutchy
I broke one of the cords for my X11s because I couldn't get past the final American course in Doritos Crash Course.
Let me throw a curveball in there. Everything is 100% or 0%. We base chance on what we know, because it is nearly impossible to take every factor into account we make do with the most obvious/measurable ones and make a number of predictions from that.
Everything that happens is based on scientific laws. If I let go of a ball, it will fall to the ground because of the law of gravity, unless you ofcourse you add another factor like wind, but wind and aerodynamics can be measured too so again it can be determined with 100% accuracy, unless ofcourse more factors come into play, factors which are subtle and too difficult or time consuming to accurately measure or predict, you start creating a number of outcomes because you dont have every piece to the puzzle.
When it gets particularly tricky is when people are involved. But the brain is just a series of chemical reactions, which again are based on laws - the brain is just too vast and complicted to accurately predict, we are still capable of predicting thoughts on a minor level though, thats how we get people to do our bidding! And why some trolls are better than others (ahem).
So basically, if you managed to take the many many factors that create an event, you could predict with 100% certainty what the outcome is.
This also implies there is no such thing as choice or free will....hmmmm
I would love to discuss this but Im using IE for xbox so it takes about an hour to type a sentence.
[Edited on 11.29.2012 6:11 PM PST]