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  • Afghanistan, Islam and national success?

    Well in the first two hundred years of Islamic rule nothing was created. Only when Ommavid Califate was replaced with a more tolerant Abbasid they started to produce significant scientific and philosophical content.
    There is a lot of discussions about the early military success of Islamic armies, the main two reasons:
    50 years of devasting war between the eastern roman empire and Sasanid Persia, and egalitarian preachment and equality (of men). Military success is not a sign of civilization, for example, look at Mongols victories.
  • How can chance be non-deterministic?
    I think the Quantum dice and normal dice are quite different. If I drop a ball it certainly falls and ends up at a predictable place, no blow up of location owing to Quantum mechanic. For the dice, the physical process and the final variable that you are observing are very sensitive to the initial conditions and accuracy of calculations in a non-continuous way. This is like what is observed in chaotic dynamic systems when even round-off errors change the outcome.