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> If we live in a materialist deterministic world - which many would cite as an axiom for simplicity - then there really is no probability. Everything happens w
by maire 6y ago
> If we live in a materialist deterministic world - which many would cite as an axiom for simplicity - then there really is no probability. Everything happens with 100% certainty.
I don't know who "the many" are - but I thought determinism had already been disproved.
I am not a physicist so I will not go into quantum mechanics - but I will take a simple example from Science Fiction, and that is the Temporal Paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_paradox
- mjburgess 6y agoHow does this disprove determinism?
- maire 6y agoSorry - I was being flippant because your argument involved time travel. After the fact an event has 100% probability that it did occur but before the event it does not. The entire field of chaos theory is to make chaos deterministic so you are in good company. There is no general mechanism (yet) to do this. Quantum mechanics is the most interesting area. The measure of determinism is that it predicts the future before it happens. People have been trying to do this for years in weather and the stock market. This is where the concept of Chaos came from. Leaving math and physics - there is philosophy. To apply determinism to people you would have to decide there is no free will. Maybe this is true and maybe not.