Timeline for Are chance and determinism incompatible?
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| Dec 21, 2023 at 20:12 | comment | added | Professor Sushing | @gs cheers! Given the lateness of the hour and the fact that I have eaten an exceptionally heavy dinner, I am afraid that your comment has by a considerable margin passed over my nodding old head. Maybe I'll stand a chance of understanding it in the morning! Sleep well. | |
| Dec 21, 2023 at 19:12 | comment | added | g s | Don't be too quick to discount the predictive possibilities of guesses about the state of regions to which no spacetime trajectory can lead from our reference frame and which therefore are not, were not, and never will be. The insides of black holes are a useful example. | |
| Dec 21, 2023 at 13:06 | comment | added | Professor Sushing | Agreed. The point is that chance is a matter of perspective. If I have a completely clockwork robot that picks cards out of a deck in a completely deterministic way, and asks you to guess which card it's holding, you will consider it a matter of chance whether you guess correctly. | |
| Dec 21, 2023 at 10:27 | comment | added | user62907 | I agree, but why is it any more meaningful to talk about different outcomes given the same laws? It seems that this is more of a matter of comfort than something based in reality. There is no evidence that the universe could have played out differently, even without determinism. There is always a sample space of one | |
| Dec 21, 2023 at 10:18 | history | answered | Professor Sushing | CC BY-SA 4.0 |