On 1/9/2011 8:44 PM, Darren New wrote:
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> if the universe isn't logically consistent than science would have to
>> be wrong on a huge scale,
>
> I don't think so.
>
>> You would need to.. have an inconsistent universe, which never the
>> less, managed to be consistent on the large scale only. Like..
>> statistically stable, but completely unstable on the basic level.
>
> We have that already. It's called quantum mechanics. :-)
>
>> Mind, this wouldn't preclude it being consistent, it would only mean
>> that events where not predictable on the smallest scale, but that the
>> law of averages/big numbers both made it consistent once you had
>> enough events to look at.
>
> Again. :-)
>
But.. This only seems to be the case, isn't certain, and its not so 
random you can't create conditions where one result is **way** more 
probable than another. Still not "inconsistent".

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void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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