• Korne127@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s determinism, a very popular and nice logical philosophical thought. Sadly, it’s completely disproved by quantum physics.

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      1 year ago

      Is it, though? Every organ has its inputs, things happen and they produce an output (a reaction). Like the eyes receive light, physics happens and signals get sent to the brain. The brain also gets inputs from the senses and the states (memories), then physics happens and it produces a reaction, I don’t see where can we place free will here. Free will has to invoke physical signals in the brain, but where can it possibly come from? Even if the universe isn’t determenistic (and it’s not just our lack of understanding that makes it seem so), free will implies that there is another force (for a lack of a better word) that does complex social things.

      Whereas I don’t see a need for free will, machines are capable of gathering outside information, processing it and making decisions without any free will involved, why would megamachines like human brains need it then?

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      1 year ago

      If everything is so predetermined, why did Netflix allow me to pick who jumps out of the window in Bandersnatch? They could’ve saved a lot of production costs by just having Stefan jump.

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        1 year ago

        I think you can actually still access most of the content if that option didn’t exist since you can chose not to go to the apartment in the first place.