N.E.R.D-1 "I need a really complex scientific formula. I'm writing a paper and I'm using math as an analogy for physical determinism. I need something really complex to demonstrate how complexity has no baring on making things more "random" (i.e. the math is just as determined whether it's simple or complicated)..."
N.E.R.D-2 "I think your thesis is flawed...complexity hasn't been properly defined, and some things are not deterministic (as you appear to have used the term)"
N.E.R.D-1 "I am aware of the non-determinicy of quantum mechanics, but I'm talking about classical mechanics. The formuli used, if they are indeed scientific formuli, are used to predict outcomes of natural phenomena. If they are successful, the phenomena in question must be just as deterministic as the formuli that describe them."
N.E.R.D-2 "But they aren't, necessarily, for highly nonlinear systems, because of limitations of how well you can know the initial conditions. Chaos theory."
And to think, the most I ever debate about is who's better? Peirce or Lebron.
Just for the record, Peirce.