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Superdeterminism: To Better Understand Our Universe, Ditch The Idea Of Free Will
- Comevius 4y agoThe concept of free will is really flimsy, but let's step over that. The problem here is that determinism itself is kind of irrelevant even when it is epistemologically true, for example the three-body problem, which follows a deterministic path, just one you can't calculate. To me this is a bit similar to Maxwell's demon that is a paradox right until you realize that in the real world the demon sorting the gas molecules is subject to the Landauer's principle, namely there is a lower limit of energy consumption of such computation. There is a bit more going on, there is some wiggle room for stretching the second law of thermodynamics without violating it eventually, but this just shows that you can't exactly run ahead and create philosophies out of spotless theories, because in reality things are always more complicated, and the details matter when describing reality. This is the problem with free will also, you can trivially create problems with it because it's a poorly defined concept that can be anything. You have to start filling in the details to get back to the land of reality. Without details you can do this the other way around too. Norton's dome can create a non-deterministic system out of Newtonian mechanics. Anything goes when you don't have details, granted there is no consensus yet on why Norton's dome is wrong.