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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Biology is complexity built upon simplicity. By asking this question, you are actually asking the same question philosophers and religions have asked for millennia: do we have a soul/free will?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

No. If we are governed by the same forces as the rest of the universe, then even free will is an illusion caused by the myriad of interactions between the particles making up our bodies and the particles that make up the rest of the universe. If we could know the current state of every particle in the universe, we could accurately predict the future. Your destiny was set into motion the moment the universe exploded into existence trillions of years ago at the advent of the big bang. Knowing this not only doesn't change the outcome, it was part of the design for you to know in the first place.

Or maybe I'm just high. πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

This is true, especially if we're correct about string theory since all possible outcomes are already determined. Only particles that have chaos can determine which outcome occurs without influence, but even these outcomes are pre-determined as chaos is its own finite variables such as a Boolean outcome of "it could do this or it could do that" regardless of influence.

This is effectively the premise of simulation theoryβ€”or very crudely put, the concept of "fate"β€”and the more we look to nature as inspiration for our own technology, the more we start having philosophical existential crises. It's pretty cool πŸ˜„

But don't fret! You and I won't be around anywhere near long enough to see it figured out. Philosophy (and theory) it remains for now. Also, fretting would be theoretically pointless anyway since it was always that way and never in your control of influence to begin with 😳

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Who is the "we" that's "correct about string theory", and what is "correct"?

Very few practicing physicists think it has any relevance as a potential description of reality any more. It has led to a lot of interesting math and gotten a lot of people tenure, though, which is tangible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I disagree. I see it that Will is the ability of a particle or system of particles to affect change in the universe around it and alter the course of destiny. If we could know the current state of every particle in the universe, we could accurately predict the future, if nothing was then ever acted upon again. But particles possessing Will can alter their environment and effect a ripple of change that could then mean the entire prediction falls apart.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If particles have will; what is "will", where did it come from, how does it work, and what determines it? Will would need to fall into chaos theory with infinite possibilities, meaning it's fundamentally not influenced, there is not pattern, therefore "you" and "me" do not control it, meaning "will" cannot allow itself exist. The only other outcome would be the concept of a soul, but then what determines that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

If we could know the current state of every particle in the universe, we could accurately predict the future.

Physicists already thought of this. The uncertainty principle forbids knowing a particles position and momentum to within a certain accuracy at the same time. Basically, the more you know of one, the less you know of the other. Applied to any two complimentary. variables.

Turns out, it's a fundamental property of wave-particle nature of systems.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

b. High πŸ˜