As Massimo points out, there are good examples in GR where traditional global determinism breaks down; naked singularities would be an example. (Basically, determinism breaks down when information can ...

As an extreme example we may refer to Grant Allen, a disciple of Herbert Spencer, who wrote in 1878 that ‘the differences between one nation and another, whether in intellect, commerce, art ...

But there are limits to his accommodation of common sense. He suggests, for example, that he better understands such matters now than he did when he was 20 years old.

Determinism is the belief in the 100 percent inevitability of everything that happens. That requires a huge leap of faith. ... For example, suppose that when you flip a coin, ...

Without determinism, systems ... within a sample interval). Thus, a faster system can improve the quality of the control and data-acquisition system you can implement in software.

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