2010-12-29

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2010-12-29

Title text: 2010-12-29

Votey

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There can't be

Free will. If every

Moment is just the

Ultimate product of

An earlier state,

Human choice makes no sense.

But wait. Say you had a computer that knew all the conditions of a man's environment, and predicted he'd eat an apple. Couldn't he read the prediction, then choose to eat an orange?

Agh/no! The computer is part of the observed system too. It'd have to simulate every atomof the system itself to predict the future which would require it to be bigger than itself!

Wait, wait! If you have a quantum computer, each quantum bit can symbolize three states, so maybe it could simulate a system bigger than itself!

Unless the apparatus to make predictions via symbols required the computer to be larger than the system in question.

Oh it's all just a result of the initial parameters of

God! Free will is a lie!

Oh, Steve!

The boundary conditions of

What gives you such amazing stamina?!

The universe

Votey Transcript

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The following night well, that was fast.

Damn you, cosmos! !

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