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What If We Live in a Superdeterministic Universe?

2022-07-20 Education
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Top Comments (10)

@CrazyDontMeanWrong 2022-07-20

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?"

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@FigmentHF 2024-04-14

I feel that all this realism stuff reads like the opening to a Douglas Adams novel- “A bunch of macroscopic, metabolising 3D apes tried to understand their subjective, first person experience of reality, by removing the macroscopic, metabolising apes from their equations. They became terribly confused”

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@Parasmunt 2022-07-27

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

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@Kuzuryu67 2026-06-04

After knowing that i have no free will i have come with the realization that i don't have to do or give my best for anything again

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@Hamifit 2022-07-21

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. Thank you!

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@sillygoose5171 2023-01-04

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.

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@petepanteraman 2022-07-23

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.

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@arldoran 2026-06-04

things we do to keep our determinism alive... *sighes*

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@davidtatro7457 2022-07-20

I appreciate how thoroughly you cover all the various implications and interpretations of QM.

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@ThisleBush 2022-07-20

5:42 What if the information is not something sent through spacetime? Rather, the information is a part of spacetime, which kind of makes sense to me as spacetime is itself information (where, when). So the information doesn’t move anywhere, it’s already there.

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