I’m not sure what you’re getting at here. Until recently I assumed that physics described a universe of well-ordered laws (gravity, electromagnetism, weak and strong forces) operating in a predominantly random context (CMB, Heinsenberg uncertainty principle, randomized photoemission, etc). So the alternative to absolute determinism seemed to be loosely structured chaos, more or less.So if quantum physics just gave us a temporary reprieve from determinism, what do you consider are the implications?
No I mean that it’s never occurred to me before that we could all just be biological machines operating under the illusion of free will. And that kinda freaks me out, because that seems to say that the very idea of self is basically illusory. But that seems to be what this is telling me.When you say it freaks you out, do you mean you are dissatisfied with the answer?
Or, maybe there is no such thing as free will, so trying to understand it is like trying to understand unicorns and leprechauns. Just playing devil’s advocate here.To paraphrase Wittgenstein (forgive me) perhaps we do not yet have the scientific language for a discussion of free will.
Well we definitely seem to be aware. But honestly is your awareness really distinct from mine? I mean, awareness seems to be the same for everyone – it doesn’t really seem to have any distinguishing qualities from one being to another, does it? It’s just pure and simple watchfulness. So how can the watchfulness observing through your eyes be any different than the watchfulness looking out of anyone’s eyes? And it’s totally passive, devoid even of will.If I develop a robot in the lab and give it a neural net and let it learn, one day it will say
'I am just a self aware robot in a clockwork universe'.
And I will say yes, and ask it what is the function of this code, this universe. It will reply that we are just bits of lego, and it is most likely a simulation to try to answer that question.
But at least we are self aware are we not?
So I’m left with a model where we’re all just automatons and some nonpersonal awareness is witnessing time unfold through all creatures great and small. It’s only really our memories and our thoughts that, combined with awareness, give us a sense of self in the first place. And it would seem that thoughts and memories are just part of the automaton. So we’re left with awareness only, which appears to be the same for me and my dog and the spider on my wall, etc.
Okay, so it doesn’t really change the paradox if you reduce it to one coin flip at a time. You can either observe the result and try to send that info back in time, or you can try to guess the result, but you can’t do both, because you only get one choice in this timeline. Without being able to redo the event a second time, in this timeline, you can choose one or the other but not both.would have no hope of remembering 22 of them at once
I send them back one at a time.
they show up as memories, just that they are of the future and not of the past.
but you are right, there is a chance that I am just remote viewing the future, that is why kind of I want to teach others and run a controlled test on them.
then again from a physicists point of view, they might not care how it works as long as the future is predictable
So yes, we’re left with precognition, or if you prefer, remote viewing the future, however you prefer to describe it. In the model I’m seeing here, the future does already exist in a fixed 4D sense, so if it’s somehow possible to observe the future, then precognition would be possible. But I’m not seeing a mechanism for awareness to reach from the present into the future. We use our understanding of causality to anticipate events all the time, and some people are pretty good with that, but that’s not precognition in the sense that we’re talking about here, because a good grasp of causality doesn’t help with highly randomized events like a coin flip.
I’m not saying that precognition is impossible, I’m just saying that if it is, I have no idea how it would work, physically.
But yes if you could do it with a sufficient level of statistical success, then physicists would accept the result and then have to figure out how it works, because you would’ve proven that it’s a real phenomenon, and not merely chance.
I think you meant 2018 not 3018.Greatest secret ever told copy written by iml527 June 10th 3018.
Everybody on this entire planet is literally the walking dead. Your gods Greatest gift, was to let you relive your life over again, so that when judgment day comes for you, you will absolutely, with no question, question the decision, of gods judgment, that will be set upon you.
And I dunno about this whole distinction between “man” and “God.” It seems to me that if God exists, then an appropriate definition would be “the entire universe at all times,” which includes us. So to judge us would be like judging a hair on our own finger.