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I have been reading Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. In the section, formal system and reality, the author talks about universe as a very big formal
by shubhamjain 13y ago
I have been reading Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. In the section, formal system and reality, the author talks about universe as a very big formal system with all sets of rules governing it. Though, author doesn't answer the determinism question itself but I am aligned to towards it being deterministic because I think there rules at every level, quantum or physical. Everything must occur because of a factor or the other.
- nhaehnle 13y agoThe interesting point here is that even though the universe may be entirely deterministic --and quantum theory says that it is, if you consider the universe as a single gigantic "wave function" -- that may still be irrelevant for our lives because we cannot actually observe this gigantic wave function. In fact, we're a part of this function, in an unusual sense for which there is no everyday life equivalent.