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To say that this is hard to think about is an understatement. I had that belief as well, where now I honestly don't know.
Let me give you somewhat of a counter argument.
There are "emergent" phenomena that don't appear dependent on lower levels of explanation. They appear at higher levels of explanation.
For example, you take two atoms and bump them into each other. They follow deterministic dynamical laws. Fancy way of saying they are like billiard balls on a table. You send them in a particular path, they bump, and will follow a particular path out. The path out depends on the path in.
If you took a film of the two atoms bouncing off each other, and reversed it, you could not tell which film is the forward film and which is the reverse. The laws of motion are symmetric. There is no way to distinguish between the two. You can not see the direction of time in the film.
Great.
But now take a whole bunch of these atoms and put them together, and somehow the second law of thermodynamics emerges. Overall, entropy increases for all these atoms over time. That means that if you take a film of all these atoms, you can tell which way is forward in time and which way is backward. You see an egg break and you know that is forward in time. See an egg come together, and the film is running in reverse. Zoom into the individual atoms of the egg, and you can't see it.
The second law of thermodynamics is an emergent phenomena. You look at deterministic laws of motion of atoms and you don't see it. Put a bunch of deterministic atoms together and it appears.
It is possible that "free will" is like that. That even though the atoms bump around deterministically, free will appears as an emergent phenomena.
Growing up . . .be like . . .
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I mean 4 years cycles and shit. This time is (probably not) different? Also last two cycles top to bottom was both around 364 days. Early October Lfg! 🎉🥳
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Apparently, he has an obsession with disappearing and turning into things
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Crazy 💀
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"So you are telling me, that we actually live in a multiverse, and that all of 'this' is just one universe and there are many parallel universes with copies of me in them? That's insane. How can you believe such a thing?"
I get it. I totally get it. It is kind of insane. But consider for a second the alternative.
Picture young Laan in Quantum Physics I discussing Schrodinger's Cat https://grokipedia.com/page/Schr%C3%B6dinger's_cat.
[professor] So the cat is neither alive or dead in the box, but is in a superposition of both alive and dead states.
[young laan] What does superposition mean?
[professor] It means the cat is neither in an alive state or a dead state, but in a superposition of each.
[young laan thinks prof is just repeating himself] I still have no idea what a superposition of a cat means. I mean the atoms of the cat are still in the box correct?
[professor] Yes.
[young laan] So the heart atoms of the cat are still there, they are either pulsing or they aren't, right?
[professor] They are in a superposition of both.
[young laan] And you're saying that if I peek into the box, I can't see this superposition of the cat, because somehow as soon as I peek, every atom knows I am peeking and this superposition goes away, and the cat becomes either dead or alive.
[professor] Correct.
[young laan] Well how do we know that this superposition even exists if we can't ever see it.
[professor] {crickets}
[young laan] If a frog looks, does the cat collapse into dead or alive states? A mosquito? A virus? If we put a camera in there, and have it take a picture, do the atoms of the film show a dead or alive cat.
[professor] If you put a camera in there, then it becomes "engangled" with the cat and it also becomes a superposition of states.
[young laan] And so there is no way to observe a "superposition", or even ask questions about it. It is fundamentally unknowable?
[professor] Correct.
[young laan] [[thinks this is bullshit]]
So imagine my relief when I discovered the "many worlds" explanation. In some universes the radioactive atom decays, and in those universes the cat is dead, and in the other universes the cat is alive.
Yeah, that is extremely unintuitive, but at least we are allowed to think again. I can understand a universe with a dead cat, and a universe with an alive cat. Things aren't changing because I look their way. There are not "forbidden questions" in this explanation. It's not religion, it is science again.
In science we don't (or at least shouldn't) judge explanations by themselves. We are always comparing them. Which is the better of the explanations that we have? We go with the best one, and "There are many universes out there" is the best explanation we have.
P.S. Einstein intuited that superposition was bullshit as well.
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"Here, Christ appears with three profiles fused into one head, a visual attempt to express a mystery that words never quite capture.
Created around 1500 in the Flemish world, the image was meant to show the Trinity as one God. Not three figures standing side by side, but one divine being seen from three directions at once.
To us, it feels strange, almost surreal, yet it was born from a genuine effort to make the invisible visible.
The idea didn’t last though. Centuries later, church authorities worried that this kind of image confused more than it clarified, and many were removed or destroyed.
What survives today feels like a glimpse into a moment when artists tried to paint theology itself, reaching for a form that could hold unity, multiplicity and mystery in a single human face.
Three‑Faced Christ, c. 1500"
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part of the problem is that decentralised dev has been retarded by big money running big relays and funding twitter clones. they seem to be going away.
Angel with the Flaming Sword, 1891, by Blashfield
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Thanks for the clarification 😂
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House of Pain “Jump Around”
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Boat experts, what is this boat?
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The story of my life 👇😂😂😂
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Ferries are for anyone, but not for everyone 😂
Cockpit POV of a Red Bull Air Race run… pulling a brutal 10G!
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I always enjoy a good boating accident 😂
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This guy is out of control. 😎😂🤣
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Damn, I’ve lost my keys again 🥹
More ferry shots
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