hull@hao.UUCP (Howard Hull) (12/29/84)
> On the surface, causality and randomness may seem to be mutually exclusive; > but on closer inspection, they must be seen as complementary facets of a > larger reality." (pages 310-313) > > Sorry for the length of the quote, but what do you think??? > > Regards, > > Ken Arndt Thank you very much for the time you spent to look up the references and summarize the information on causality, uncertainty, determinancy, and determinability for myself and others on the net. I believe I understood what you wrote. My own conceptualization of the uncertainty principle did not suffer any dislocation with respect to what you submitted. From what you said, I am left to remain of the position that ours is an observational context. It appears to me that limits placed on our ability to observe prevent us from finding out whether the situation is determined or not determined. Our observational capacity, which may be broken down into the classes of "absolute" and "statistical" vary, depending on the class of objects we are observing. Since we do not have absolute observational capacity for every object in our observable universe, we cannot know if we are living in a determined universe or not. Period. The End. I am preparing an article for submission to the net that shall be an outline of observational capacity, expressed as a model. That will allow the readers of this newsgroup to boil me in the traditional gallon of oil, and it will be posted later today. It should be fun. Thanks again. Howard Hull {ucbvax!hplabs | allegra!nbires | harpo!seismo } !hao!hull