Evolution and fun stuff

[kellychaos]

You sound as if you fall slightly toward the Newtonian camp, Helm - i.e. deterministic, that all can eventually be described and the future can determined through mathematics from a given, known state. I have a lot faith in mathematics being able to fairly accurately model the world to a certain degree but that their are way too many variables to ever really achieve an exact replication. Not that we shouldn't always strive. One of the things that makes me believe that that degree of accuracy is impossible is the study of language ... mathematics (logic) itself if you think of of it in the Witchenstein (sp?) sense. There are things that I contemplate that I know that, at least the English language, can't adequately describe. That's why arts, music, poetry, ect are important to me. Sure, mathematical/technology can replicate things of those sort but they can never give us the original composition. Sort of the sum of the parts being greater than the whole which no computer in the world can adequately define or recognize. Sorry, I'm babbling ... I'll end this here.