Could you predict everything that will ever happen given sufficient computing power and current knowledge?

is history decided now? wrote:It's a hypothetical question, dude. Calm down

no

stoopid question

if you have infinite anything, you can have infinite...

Here you're referring to the chaos theory. It is almost impossible to predict every precise outcome, but I believe the answer is within the chemicals in our brains, but that won't come for over 300 years. By that time we won't be around to see the extraordinary breakthroughs in neuroscience and physics.

The better way to phrase this question

"Are all future states of universe determined by all of the previous states"

My gut instinct on this is yes. Current knowledge of quantum physics says no, but really they are just describing observations. We haven't gotten to the point where we can understand quantum physics from fundamental first principles but I believe that if we do then we will find that observations that appear chaotic really aren't.

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billy777771 wrote:

Here you're referring to the chaos theory. It is almost impossible to predict every precise outcome, but I believe the answer is within the chemicals in our brains, but that won't come for over 300 years. By that time we won't be around to see the extraordinary breakthroughs in neuroscience and physics.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. It's not probable that we will defeat aging in our lifetime, though it is without a question possible; and the chance of it happening within our lifetime is non negligible.

Keep in mind the ever accelerating rate of technological growth too. The world in 40 years is going to be far, far more changed than the difference between 1975 and now.