• AlpineSteakHouse [any]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    wtf is super determinism too

    It just means that every minute decision you make was predetermined by various material factors. I.E. the reason you make the decision you do is because your brain was in a state which was determined by various material factors. Those material factors were predetermined by other material factors so on and so forth. It’s mostly used as a way to get around seemingly faster-than-light information sharing in quantum physics.

    If you run a physics simulation with the exact same parameters then it should have the exact same results right? Super Determinism postulates that the universe operates in a similar way. That if you could simulate the entire universe and it started out exactly the same, then the simulated universe and the current universe would be identical.

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      4 months ago

      No no this is plain WRONG :( These “super determinists” need to read Gramsci and understand that the subject IS NOT a slave!!

      • AlpineSteakHouse [any]@hexbear.net
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        4 months ago

        No offense, but there’s a big difference between economic determinism and physical determinism. Gramsci was writing about humans in a sociological context, not sub atomic particles and quantum mechanics. They do not contradict the other. Unless you mean to imply that particles behave like human beings for some reason.

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          4 months ago

          From the comment I responded to:

          It just means that every minute decision you make was predetermined by various material factors. I.E. the reason you make the decision you do is because your brain was in a state which was determined by various material factors. Those material factors were predetermined by other material factors so on and so forth.

    • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      4 months ago

      Not really sure why people think so poorly of physical determinism. Why do people think that if the universe were to be put into the same state twice then we would get two different ‘histories’ of its states from that point on?