Knowledge of the present
In a process in time, an event of a Markov process depends on the previous one and not those earlier in the process i.e., knowledge of the present makes the future independent of the past.
I am not sure I’ve got the credits right, but, this quote makes me go hmmm.., and then, wow!
Now if only history would rely on the Markov Process!
Dec 14, 06 at 04:00Yes, so far, only science has progressed like that. The relevance of that quote is indeed from a person belonging to a scientific community, and so, I thought it would be read in that context, no history or any other events, in general, so to speak.
Dec 18, 06 at 16:10