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Other philosophy communities have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. [ x ]
"I thunk it so I dunk it." - Descartes
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Personally I don't think it makes any sense.
But what I think is just a hallucination caused by the matter and the energy imparted upon that matter when everything came into existence, which we're just seeing unfold in exactly the way that it always would have :edgeworth-shrug:
Determinism is just Calvinism for nihilists
In everyday practice, especially when it's brought up in an unsolicited way, yeah pretty much. It's related to the "love is just chemicals, relationships are all transactions" crowd and has a lot of overlap of being abrasive and smug and reductionistic.
I'd argue with capital-D Determinists, but there's no point because the outcome of the argument is ostensibly predetermined anyway, even though acting and behaving like it's predetermined also changes the outcome and in general people are happier and better off not humoring determinism in their everyday lives to begin with. :the-more-you-know:
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/125
For now, I subscribe to the notion that the uncertainty in physical theories of thermodynamics and quantum mechanics is not a mere consequence of our mathematical models but a feature of the underlying reality. Maybe someone will find a better theory that unmasks what I think modern physics considers to be intrinsically random process in QM as epistemic (i.e., our model is flawed). That kind of development would be world-changing and might really upset Penrose lol.