i mean just 46:11 viewing people as physical systems that are not separate from the universe. there really is just the universe doing its 46:17 thing it's doing its thing deterministically. you know just one domino is falling and hitting the next 46:23 and if you if you believe that there's a component of randomness in there then there's some you know jiggle to the 46:30 system that is that is in indeterministic and uh therefore 46:36 intrinsically unpredictable, but in neither case neither with dominoes 46:41 falling or dice rolling do you get a picture of a will that can that tr can 46:48 independently author its own uh doings.Wow, what a silly argument. His theory is that his brain works by either falling dominoes or rolling dice, and neither has free will. Neither is conscious either.
When he is not denouncing Pres. Trump or free will, he is promoting meditation. What is the point of meditation if the mind is just dominoes and dice? Does that somehow get those dominoes and dice to function better?
He charges $150 per year to listen to these wacky rants.
People hold him up as a rational leftist, but he is not.
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Dominoes don't know they fall, or even have the capacity to know that they are even there. Same holds true for Dice. Strange that such educated folk would miss the considerable distinction pieces of inanimate plastic and people.
No, you can't know ALL the initial states...No human is either immortal and absurdly part of the event of creation to consider and somehow be aware of all those initial states, OR/AND omniscient to be able to know all those initial states...which would ALSO require a system more complex than the universe itself to do and also be outside of time itself (thus, requiring an independent system outside the system of the universe), as anything you did to measure anything would also alter those same damn initial states as you measured them, thus becoming a part of those initial states, Doh!!!
So NO superdeterminism for you. You would think pin headed math wiz kids would consider these things before writing silly papers.
The entire argument is utterly ridiculous...'IF I knew everything, I would know the future.' Anyone notice the big 'IF'??????
Well, you don't so you won't, so step off and do something useful for a change besides ponder useless 'if I was an all knowing god' arguments.'
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