Re: virus: probability

From: Walter Watts (wlwatts@cox.net)
Date: Tue Jan 20 2004 - 16:01:43 MST

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    "History arises when the space of possibilities is too large by far for the actual to exhaust the possible."

    -Stuart Kauffman, "At Home in the Universe"

    Mermaid wrote:

    > [Lucifer]Probability is the fraction of possible futures that contain an event.
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    > [Mermaid]That would be a possibility, no? Probability would include many assumptions with the premise and hence more possible futures. Possibility is the fraction of possible futures given a certain fixed assumption re the environment in which the event takes place.
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