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Im curious about how this relates to deterministic time and the lack of free will. >Our minds are “big”, in the sense that they span many individual branches o
by marcus_holmes 2y ago
Im curious about how this relates to deterministic time and the lack of free will.
>Our minds are “big”, in the sense that they span many individual branches of history. And they’re computationally bounded so they can’t perceive the details of all those branches, but only certain aggregated features. And in a first approximation what then emerges is in effect a single aggregated thread of history.
Does this allow free will?
- floobertoober 2y agoI've actually thought about free will in the context of wolfram's ideas before, and I like the idea that our minds are computationally irreducible - I think it is a very close analogue to free will.
- causal 2y agoI've yet to come across a satisfying definition for free will beyond "it's not determinism but also not randomness"