Re: Evolution is NOT random

Tim Tyler <seemysig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On May 13, 5:37 pm, Paul J Gans <g...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tim Tyler <seemy...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 13, 1:37 am, Paul J Gans <g...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tim Tyler wrote:

The wave equation is deterministic:

http://www.hedweb.com/everett/everett.htm#deterministic

Everett's interpretation of quantum mechanics is ideosyncratic,
and is not generally accepted.
See:http://www.hedweb.com/everett/everett.htm#believes

Sorry. My information comes from better sources.

Unreferenced sources, though - whereas my source was
referenced.

That the speaker is a professional physicist ought to give you pause,
though.

I think that there is a large misconception invovled here. There
is *no* argument about the equations of quantum mechanics
themselves. What argument there is comes in the interpretation
of what the various terms in those equations *mean*.
At least one unrefuted interpretation has the universe
as being deterministic. The hypothesis that the universe
contains "random" elements is *speculation* which is
totally unsupported by any actual *evidence*.

Can you give me a reference to that "interpretation"?

The MWI: http://www.hedweb.com/everett/everett.htm

By the way, you might look up what the word "interpretation"
means.

It seems like a pointless, patronising comment.

What, that an interpretation is not the same thing as the theory it
interprets? That one is not committed to the MWI in virtue of accepting
quantum theory? If that is patronising, then you had better gird your
loins for a whole mess of patronage.

--
John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Philosophy
University of Queensland - Blog: scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts
"He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor,
bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious."

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