On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 6:33 PM Stathis Papaioannou <stath...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Nobody will ever be able to prove that superdeterminism is untrue, it's >> specifically engineered in such a way to make sure that could never happen, >> but it is certainly possible to prove that superdeterminism is silly. It >> says that in order for the world to be the way it appears to be now the >> initial conditions of the universe 13.8 billion years ago MUST have been in >> one and only one SUPER specific starting condition, >> > > *> Isn’t that just determinism?* > No. There are an astronomically huge number of random initial conditions the Big Bang could've started out in and the world would be very much as it is now, but super determinism says only one of those initial conditions will do, because only one of them will cause human experimenters to ALWAYS make the wrong choice when they decide how to orientate their polarizing filters or Stern–Gerlach magnets leading them to ALWAYS incorrectly conclude that things were either not realistic or not local. Out of the huge, possibly infinite, number of initial conditions the universe could have started out in superdeterminism insists it could not have started out in just any old random way, it had to start out in the one and only one way that would make fools out of human beings 13.8 billion years later. As I said before nobody will ever be able to prove that super determinism is untrue, perhaps the universe really is a put-up job, just a big practical joke with human beings being the butt of the joke, but one can't help but ask what caused the universe to start out in such an extremely non-random way? Maybe there really is a God but He is a slapstick comedian with a very sick sense of humor. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv28Q6Pv-A8y7WQ373y%3Dy4ryjK_G0kgQhMHEQ0iv1T6kcg%40mail.gmail.com.
