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An unpolished thought: Consider the case of a computer simulation of a worm [0] If your simulation predicts the worm behavior up to some tolerance, you then l
by downboots 3y ago
An unpolished thought:
Consider the case of a computer simulation of a worm [0]
If your simulation predicts the worm behavior up to some tolerance, you then laugh at it's supposed free will
There's some outside conditions that can't be controlled (the simulator is also a subset of the same universe) and may deterministically affect the worm behavior
To fully account for these factors and their corresponding deterministic chains, the simulation must grow more and more complex if you want more precision
Maybe free will could be thought instead of as a determinism ratio taking into account compute limits
I suspect a logical contradiction could arise presuming a subset of the universe being able to simulate the whole universe
If the simulation has to be limited, some "wiggle room" of free will must be granted to the worm
[0] https://openworm.org/ https://openworm.org/