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Ben
@benersing
Let’s spice things up a bit. Predestination: yes/no?
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Cassie Heart
@cassie
I liken the questions of free will and predestination to be similar to the divide between classical physics and quantum physics. Newton viewed the universe as being the display of divine clockwork. Our improved understanding is that probabilities rule everything at a much subtler level, the clockwork is emergent.
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Cassie Heart
@cassie
If the "divine watchmaker" philosophy is correct, it is not in conflict with free will, because the watch itself is one that carries intentionally vast entropy. Or put simply by one of the best summaries I've heard of QM: "If there is harmony underlying quantum discord, it is inaccessible to the experimenter."
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TongueScraperLagrange
@eulerlagrange.eth
If decisions you thought were free will were replaced by dice rolls, idk how free will emerges from that.
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Chukwuka Osakwe
@chukwukaosakwe
Yo. This is so good. Stealing it.
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Ben
@benersing
This is the most thoughtful explanation I’ve encountered of the apparent paradox of freewill vs predestination in a Judeo-Christian worldview.
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Ike
@iw
Regardless of whether there is fundamental randomness or not, the nature of the universe need only be _sufficiently_ unpredictable for us to believe we have free will. Even if a universe is purely deterministic it only need be sufficiently unpredictable (ie hidden variables) for us to believe in free will.
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