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Even the mathematics created to understand my dice is something of a fantasy. What is probability? If I throw my dice 600 times, I expect to get 100 6s. But I just want to throw it once and know something about how it will fall. The equations of chaos theory tell us that so much of the future is dependent on extremely fine-tuning of the decimal places that control the input of the equations. So I can never know the present completely enough to have any chance of knowing the future or the past.
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What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge
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