Hi,
I just thought of expressing a view.
You state, "Predictability is the ability to know with certainty an event in the
future. This potential, to have certainty of a future event is something that
can always be achieved with material objects, as material objects always
follow the pattern of cause and effect."
Is it? Consider a physical entity spread over a continuum of space of
some causal function that superposes with other entity to make interaction
possible, but transitions can occur only in quanta. That is, such entities
have infinite degrees of freedom internally, but a change can occur only in
discrete values. Infinity is mapped onto finite number of discrete values.
How do you make such measurements predicatble with certainty? As a simple
example, one can think of a system having three possible internal states,
but a measuring device maps the state to two distinguishable states.
Can the outcome of a measurement be always predicted with certainty?
May be after multiple measurements, one can model how the internal states
change among three values and how the internal states is mapped to two values;
a cross product gives six possibilities. But what if the internal state space
is a continuum with truly infinite variations possible?
Rajiv
