C.f. sensitive dependence on initial conditions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect
I think chaos theory has effectively nuked that idea (thank goodness - the world would be such a dull place otherwise). -Tim On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Hernán Erasmo <dhera...@gmail.com> wrote: > This rings a bell... > > 2014-12-02 23:43 GMT-03:00 Daniel Bell <john.mrdaniel.b...@googlemail.com > >: > > [...] > > Could nupic do this if we theoretically did have all the features that > > represent the state of the system? > > [...] > > "We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past > and the cause of its future. An intellect which at a certain moment would > know all forces that set nature in motion, and all positions of all items > of which nature is composed, if this intellect were also vast enough to > submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in a single formula the > movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the tiniest > atom; for such an intellect nothing would be uncertain and the future just > like the past would be present before its eyes." > > -Pierre Simon Laplace, *A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities* > -- http://timboudreau.com
