Is the universe walking a path it cannot avoid?
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matt_shade — 6 years ago(June 12, 2019 07:10 AM)
In other words, is every moment in time the inevitable result of how the universe began and how the universe began the inevitable result of the state of things "before" it?
Meaning, even if there are other universes and they interact with this one, they too are walking their "unavoidable paths".
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XoX — 6 years ago(June 26, 2019 09:25 AM)
That is the deterministic view. It supposes if you know what happened at the start, then you can predict all events in the future. If quantum phenomena is in fact random, as is currently understood, then the universe is not deterministic. It is random.
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matt_shade — 6 years ago(June 26, 2019 06:56 PM)
But what is random? If I drop a million dice on the floor, I (a human) can't predict exactly which will show six but every one would land exactly how it would land under those conditions at that moment.
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matt_shade — 6 years ago(June 27, 2019 12:29 AM)
For yours and ours.
I just want to write good intelligent stories. Why can't I just do that?
I know this conversation will go on until I give up, so I'm surrendering now.
You're a great guy Matt.
I'm confused but thanks?
'(sigh) We humans are stupid egotistical self-deluded beings'
Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. 