Meet our independent agent.
The agents future is a bit more hazy.
Consequences are assured by agents past negligence. Repercussions for selfish and irresponsible behavior and decisions are now going to result.
While probability remains high for certain outcomes it is impossible to determine the results or the severity of actions to come with any degree of certainty because other agents exist and contribute to the outcome.
Other agents will decide the appropriate course of action. The exact nature of repercussions is unknown. Except that there will be repercussions eventually.
And the results that occur will likewise be an amalgamation of another agent's circumstance, mental processes, and can absolutely determinined in retrospect.
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Where the cause is concerned could the agent have done anything different or was it as automated as a computer program choosing true/false logic gates?
Where the effect is concerned could any of that alone absolutely determine its location and form?
Is this just another battlefield for quantum and Newtonian physics?
| By | Dark Enlightenment |
| Added | Oct 21 '20 |
The Wall
Everyone tries to make it compatible. Libertarianism fails in retrospect (because you didn't do it differently) and determinism fails in prognostication because of uncertainty.
In precognition experiments even though there is 10 second lag in our decisions, it is only slightly more than 50% predictable to an outside observer. Even though the brain scans can see your decision 10 seconds prior, the predictability of that is still very much still unknown until 10 seconds before. This puts a mark on hard determinism's prognostic accuracy.
You can recreate all initial conditions except for the whims of the participant (regardless of their own cognition of that), and why they might choose the left button this time on the 4th decision.
To argue this is the volition of a divine predetermined program is lacking, as the decision would be instantaneous and accurate if that were true.
* Unless said divine program is operating like adaptive software and grants liberty of choice to the many "independent" agents. Albeit somewhat extraneously.
All said my opinion is that the interconnectedness of the many is the only reason chance and probability exists for the primary (you), and the only reason the barrier between these incompatible views exists.
We think therefore we are. All of us, separately like a diverse ecosystem or intertwining cause and effect.
In short: An illusion of Indeterminism arises through the many agents following their own deterministic trajectory.I think the present is a barrier between two incompatible facets of existence like the barrier between the quantum and Newtonian world. They even have the same uncertain location access issues.
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