Cossac Wrote:About the chaos theory thing...technically I had that wrong. Chaos happens when initial conditions are very slightly changed. What I was thinking is that on a quantum level, we can't ever totally know the initial conditions, so we can never precisely model the universe and figure out exactly how it will play out. But that's going off on a tangent I guess...
There are also situations where differences between two systems are just eliminated as the systems progress in time. Kinda like if the temperature difference inside the system is 5 to 15 degrees in one system, and 0 to 20 degrees in another, they may both have an even temperature of 10 degrees without gradients in the future.
But I'm not paranoid enough to think that this will happen to everything I do.
Well... at least not that kind of paranoid.
And even if the Earth blows up one day and there is nothing I can do about it, I'll still be grateful that I had the privilege to get me some strawberry ice cream before it happens.
Cossac Wrote:As far as your other point that we are always 'trapped' into doing whatever our brain decides is the best choice - it's an interesting thought, but it's a circular argument: any decision you make is automatically the best one because you made it
The thought was less about free will vs fate, but more about free will vs instinct.
I think the human brain acts just as instinctively as other any living being, except that its actions are more based on long term memory and thinking, which makes us think we have more free will than a microbe or a tree.
Swif Wrote:If you had knowledge of the position and nature of every atom and particle in the universe along with a sufficiently strong computing device, you could predict anything from the creation of the universe to its end.
It'll never happen, though.
Because the computer would have to be bigger than the universe:P