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> Physics without determinism What does this even mean? The whole universe and life itself are possible precisely because there is determinism, which is captur
by johndoe42377 6y ago
> Physics without determinism
What does this even mean? The whole universe and life itself are possible precisely because there is determinism, which is captured in what we call logic, (and arithmetic).
Sects, fucking sects everywhere.
- mseepgood 6y agoThe universe and biology are stochastic.
- johndoe42377 6y agoOh, really? Molecular biologists and Pfizer scientists would disagree.
- tsimionescu 6y agoThe turn of phrase is probably bad, but determinism can exist even in a fundamentally undeterministic universe. All that is required for the universe to be undetermimistic is for SOME events to lack a cause. For example, a universe in which once every billion years a particle appears out of thin air somewhere in the universe and flies off in a random direction is, on the whole, non-deterministic, even if every other interaction works according to simple mechanistic rules.