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Sure, but superdeterminism implies determinism. That is, if the world is superdeterministic, it is certainly deterministic, so living agents definitely react to
by simiones 3y ago
Sure, but superdeterminism implies determinism. That is, if the world is superdeterministic, it is certainly deterministic, so living agents definitely react to stimuli in a theoretically predictable manner.
Interestingly, it's actually very hard to define what it would mean to believe in determinism, but not superdeterminism. Ultimately if the universe is deterministic, that must mean that everything that happens is predictable from the initial conditions of the universe.
- nyssos 3y ago> Ultimately if the universe is deterministic, that must mean that everything that happens is predictable from the initial conditions of the universe. This is still not superdeterminism. The superdeterminist claim is a statistical one: your choice of measurement is not even approximately conditionally independent of the state of the thing you're measuring. Ever. There are plenty of deterministic processes that nonetheless wipe out most correlations over the long-term: thoroughly mixing two fluids will do it. Preserving a strong correlation between the future state of your brain and the exact luminosity of a star a billion light years away at one particular moment, over the whole history of the universe is incomprehensibly unlikely. And superdeterminists claim that this happens every single time.