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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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Cassie Heart
@cassie
I'm drawing a parallel, not trying to explain free will with quantum mechanics – we do not yet have an understanding of what makes us conscious at all. The argumentation is that free will and predestination are not at ends with one another, because predestination is a superset of all possible outcomes.
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Ben
@benersing
Makes sense. That was my interpretation of your argument.
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