Like, we’ll probably find out that eating boogers actually makes you immune to select illnesses or something crazy like that.

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    We can’t predict it because we can’t possibly know everything. But unpredictably isn’t the same as randomness or implies nondeterministic behaviour.

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      9 hours ago

      If you are really interested, look into the uncertainty principle.

      At this point in science we are as convinced as is possible to be; that the universe is probabilistic in nature.

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        The uncertainty principle says what the limits are on our knowledge of a given scenario, not that the universe which is running the show has such a limit.

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          4 hours ago

          Your argument is circular.

          In your view, determinism requires impossible perfect knowledge. It only seems probabilistic, because we can’t do the impossible.

          This is also not a technology problem. These are not limits we can overcome.