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Superdeterminism boils down to "the universe has baked in all results for all these quantum interactions" In a dumb "the universe in a computer" metaphor, it's
by rtpg 7y ago
Superdeterminism boils down to "the universe has baked in all results for all these quantum interactions"
In a dumb "the universe in a computer" metaphor, it's saying that instead of having `do_quantum_thing` be a function taking various physically interesting parameters and then resolving to something interesting (and thus making QM be _about finding that_), we just have a huge array like `result_of_all_quantum_things_ever_to_exist` filled with random garbage.
It's a theory that precludes any notion of predictivity in effects. It's nihilism for physicists.
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- trevyn 7y agoI think this is a misinterpretation — superdeterminism says that there is no true randomness in the function, not that the function is of any other particular form. The excitement is from the possibility that the function may be very simple (in Kolmogorov complexity terms), yet yield only one possible result for the state of the universe at each point in time. (Much like the process for calculating pi is simple and there is only one value for pi, but without knowing the process, there appears to be a lot of complexity or randomness.)