What If We Live in a Superdeterministic Universe?

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Today we’re going to try to save reality - or at least realism. However this rescue effort has a price; one that you may not be willing to pay. Your very soul, or at least your free will, is on the line.
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@CrazyDontMeanWrong Рік тому

The fun thing about determinism, is that it doesn't matter. Either we have free will or we don't and never did, yet we still act as though we do, because what else can we do? Whether or not the universe is deterministic or not, there's still only one question that matters, "How can I abuse the rules of reality to survive past the death of the stars and live to see the release of half life 3?"

@FigmentHF 28 днів тому

I feel that all this realism stuff reads like the opening to a Douglas Adams novel-

@omgIoIwtf 7 годин тому

So- what you’re saying is that, on a macro scale, this manifests as karma or a Mass Effect dialogue wheel, where each choice has a predetermined outcome and where the “choice” itself is an illusion. I can dig it. Explains a lot.

@denijane89 Рік тому

There was a short story (“What’s Expected of Us” by Ted Chiang) about what happened when a device called the Predictor showed there's no free will and how a big part of the society disintegrated not being able to take the notion that their choice doesn't exist. So I guess it's easier to believe we have free will, so that we can continue to play the game called life. Like a computer game - you follow the main story no matter how many side quests you take.

@SabineHossenfelder Рік тому

Well done, Matt! I dare to say it's a super video 😁

@bendafyddgillard Рік тому

if super-determinism is how things are, you don't actually have a choice (in the conventional sense) whether to believe in it or not. Whether you believe in it or not, and whether your mind changes because of this video, has been determined since the beginning of time. It's all fractal eddies in spacetime

@andrejflauder2346 Рік тому

Every time you feel smart enough, PBS Space Time has the cure

@onepieceatatime Рік тому

Superintendentism is where the superintendent of your building predetermines when they are going to fix the heat, repair the windows, and clear out the clogged drains.

@adisario Рік тому

After the Strong Force episodes, please tell us what the Weak Force *is*. I mean, yeah, it is responsible for atomic decay.... but how, what, why? Thank you!

@Homeboy73 Рік тому

Our life might be superdeterministic. Meaning, the story was already written in the past. However, it is still a book I havent read yet. Thats enough to carry on with the plot.

@Shendue Рік тому

The most interesting depiction of determinism, to my opinion, is the character of Dr. Manhattan in Watchmen. His disintegration and subsequent reforming changed him so much that he became able to see the whole continuum of his own time. Thus, his existence became completely deterministic. It's brilliant because, while he has this incredible knowledge, he basically can't do anything with it. He just rants about events in the past and future at times, and people that are around him look at him in confusion and get angry at him because of his apparent aloofness and coldness, and don't understand that he got progressively detached from his own humanity not because of his powers, but precisely because of the perception of determinism. His mate gets into an argument with him and is pissed off at the fact he barely reacts because she thinks he doesn't care, while he's actually trying to calmly explain to her that she's gonna leave him and go out. Not because he doesn't care, but simply because that's WHAT HAPPENS, PERIOD.

@purpledevilr7463

I view freewill as an emergent property. Something complex emerging from simple.

@orionspur Рік тому

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@Parasmunt Рік тому

He deserves a lot of praise in how he describes these concepts.

@vukkulvar9769 Рік тому

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@vaccaphd

Under the assumption of superdeterminism, Cartesius' dualism is disproved. Furthermore, this could support the hypothesis that we live in a simulation where what appears random is, in reality, deterministic. Just like a random generator with a fixed seed.

@Hamifit Рік тому

Honestly one of best ever channels and I hope the universe has predetermined that Matt never stops making these videos with help of the team.

@petepanteraman Рік тому

I love that you asked the question " is the observer influenced by the observation" now that's the mind bending kind of stuff I love, especially because it makes it sound like we intuit or know the answer and our other self is trying to answer it too. I'm sure there's a better way to state this though, regardless this is mind bending.

@sillygoose5171 Рік тому

spooky action at a distance hahaha. Albert EInstein is awesome! His famous head shot is like being silly during a photo when everyone never smiled and had to pose proper.

@ponli7532 Рік тому

I came to the realization of super determinism the first time I had to create a random variable in programming. The realization that there is nothing random, it has to be faked and then you have to test it that is has a probabilistic statistical distribution that corresponds to the sample size. This really hit home that everything has a cause and consequence, random is just the obscuration of perfect knowledge. This realization had a profound effect on my understanding of the universe and also I rely upon it in personal growth.