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Subject: Re: Free [Will, Lunch, Software] - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 1-Aug-84 00:29:52 EDT
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ism780b!jim    Jul 20 12:29:00 1984

> But the fact remains that the particle must be somewhere.

No so, because the universe does not really contain "particles".
"Particle" is merely an organizing concept which human beings use
to try to get a handle on what is really there.  When you get to a finer
level, you start using the organizing concept "probability wave function".

> My premise was that whoever or whatever was analyzing the universe
> had the means to determine these things.

Not if you believe, as many physicists seem to, that the universe itself
has "free will", it has multiple possible futures, no one of which alone
is implicit in the current state.  According to the multiple-worlds
model, they are all implicit and they all "happen", and the one you see is
just the one that this "you" happened in.

-- Jim Balter, INTERACTIVE Systems (ima!jim)