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I believe I read somewhere (Chaitin?) that what you stated implies a deterministic universe. It doesn't seem plausible.
by cgh 10y ago
I believe I read somewhere (Chaitin?) that what you stated implies a deterministic universe. It doesn't seem plausible.
- Filligree 10y agoWhy not? All the laws of physics we know of are already deterministic.
- gbrown 10y agoExcept (maybe) all of quantum mechanics
- taneq 10y agoJust because there are things we can't measure from inside this universe doesn't mean that those things aren't deterministic.
- cyphar 10y ago> Just because there are things we can't measure from inside this universe doesn't mean that those things aren't deterministic. There is no reason to believe that non-local hidden variables are the reason for the probabilistic nature of QM. Many worlds is another classic interpretation that works.
- hyperpallium 10y agoWhat would be the nature of those things, given that we find no correlation at all with things in this universe? I could believe we just aren't measuring with enough precision (and perhaps, it's impossible to do so). But that's still deterministic and inside our universe.
- harryh 10y agoIt does if we're living in a simulation.
- taneq 10y agoYou don't think it's plausible that the universe is deterministic?
- zeroer 10y agoThe Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is deterministic. It's one of the (many) qualities that makes it so attractive.