computer that predicts the future

[mdwh]

Unless the computer's RNG comes from a nondeterministic process (which 99.9999% of computers arn't), then it is not truely random.

You can get RNGs which rely on a physical process, so are "truely" random. The posted article is misleading (talking of "computer technology"), but the Wikipedia article says "hardware random number generators".

 

[Bill3000]

You can get RNGs which rely on a physical process, so are "truely" random. The posted article is misleading (talking of "computer technology"), but the Wikipedia article says "hardware random number generators".

I know, thus the 99.999%.

 

[Homie]

Narz, I tried the random generator game you linked to.
It is just a generator that plays through fake events and one emperor will finally rule the world. It is sort of like if you let all the players in a civ game be AI's and let the game play out by itself.

Anyway, so I stared at the player's icons and had a feeling that the cat would win, and so he did? Really weird! There is no way I could have known, because I looked at the icons and felt he was gonna win and THEN I started the simulation.

 

[Narz]

Prayer involves a god. This sort-of pyschic feeling control, as far as I can tell, does not.

Now, tell me, why do you imagine you'd feel it?

IMO there is no God, only energy.

I like to think I would feel it because I am sensitive to stuff like that. Same reason I can feel if someone is staring at me. We have subtler senses than only the basic five otherwise we wouldn't have survived as a species.

No, I wouldn't.

You don't know that.

Narz, I tried the random generator game you linked to.
It is just a generator that plays through fake events and one emperor will finally rule the world. It is sort of like if you let all the players in a civ game be AI's and let the game play out by itself.

Anyway, so I stared at the player's icons and had a feeling that the cat would win, and so he did? Really weird! There is no way I could have known, because I looked at the icons and felt he was gonna win and THEN I started the simulation.

Awesome!

 

[warpus]

Anyway, so I stared at the player's icons and had a feeling that the cat would win, and so he did? Really weird! There is no way I could have known, because I looked at the icons and felt he was gonna win and THEN I started the simulation.

Coincidence.. happens to everyone!

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

Oh come on. You don't realy believe this do you?

 

[blackheart]

Oh come on. You don't realy believe this do you?

Why not?

tenten

 

[Urederra]

Oh come on. You don't realy believe this do you?

Well, the XVI-XVII century explorers didn't know how the compass worked, the physics behind it, It didn't prevent then to discover the Americas.

 

[mdwh]

Well, the XVI-XVII century explorers didn't know how the compass worked, the physics behind it, It didn't prevent then to discover the Americas.

But the effects of the compass can be repeatedly verified by anyone.

 

[Narz]

So are the effects on intention and consciousness, they are just more subtle and take longer to measure.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

47? you mean 42, right? I wonder if this computer watches old tv reruns, too?!

 

[malclave]

I wonder if it ever spews out 47.

Not 47, but it might spit out 101010.

Imagine what it could do if it were somehow connected to a cup of very hot tea...

 

[nifft]

A fair amount of research has been conducted in this field, most notably by the Princeton University PEAR lab

http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/5.html

Other researchers include Dean Radin (www.deanradin.com) and the Boundary Institute (www.boundaryinstitute.org). An extensive bibliography and a few links can be found at:
http://www.psigenics.com/Research/

Unfortunately, for every legitimate researcher, there are probably 1000 cranks which makes it tough to sort out the good info from the garbage. Some day (hopefully soon) there will be published more solid results in peer-reviewed journals.

 

[Narz]

Thanks for the links. I'd watch that PEAR Proposition DVD. Anyone want to buy it for me for my birthday?

 

[Narz]

By the way, welcome to CFC nifft, hope to see you around more.

 

[GoldEagle]

What a load of BS. It's pure coincidence, if that.

 

[Masquerouge]

The death of lady Di? A major world event?

 

[Kozmos]

Yes the death of a show figure princess.....how majorly!

 

[Neomega]

I had this in my pentagenesis mod.

I got the idea from a book that claimed they had done computer analysis on the I-ching, and found that the world would have a cataclysmic change in 2012.

 

[tomsnowman123]

I find it hard to believe that there is any truth to this other than coincidence, and matching data to events. It happens. Much like the bible code, it doesn't really predict stuff, we just make it so.

There's not enough data to show that stuff like this happens. It appears to be probability in action.