Comment by teaearlgraycold
4 days ago
No randomness when taking everything into account. I’m not an expert but I still hold out hope that if you know more about the universe than humanity does everything will be known to be deterministic.
Also implies that all singularities of the same mass are identical. I think this should be less bold of a statement. Let’s speculate that the more mass in the singularity would correspond to higher iterations in something like the Mandelbrot set. More of a resolution enhancement.
More if a scifi prompt than anything else to be fair.
While I doubt you’re unique in this, I think this is the first time I’ve seen someone say they hope there’s no such thing as free will.
Can you explain why you hope everything is deterministic?
In my way of thinking, determinism is a prerequisite for "free will". People usually speak of free will as a the idea of making their own choices. Suppose you hypothetically take a snapshot of my exact physical/mental state at the instant of decision and replay it multiple times. If I always make the same choice, that's determinism. If the outcome of the decision is sometimes different, I can't call that a "choice" or free will. It was something random that I had no control over.
Might just be a reflection of my enjoyment of life. I’ve been very lucky on most aspects. Perhaps if things were worse I’d wish for the knowledge that it could have gone differently.
But also it would be super trippy and interesting. Knowing just the mass of the universe you’d be able to peer into any time, past or present, and see exactly what happened. But then what happens around areas where people look into the local time? This happens in the show Devs. So not at all a new idea in scifi.
Not much concern for all the people less lucky than you?
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That would mean that beings getting to know everything about the universe at some point and realizing it's deterministic was always pre-determined