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🗓️ 8 April 2025
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0:00.0 | Hey there, everybody, Stefan Mollini for freedomain.com. |
0:03.2 | Hope you're doing well. |
0:04.0 | So, a couple of questions here from free domain.locals.com, great community. |
0:10.0 | You should join. |
0:11.0 | Hi, staff, long time listener. |
0:12.0 | I have a curious question about free will. |
0:14.0 | I think you probably heard this to some degree, but my question very briefly is as follows. |
0:18.0 | If we had a supercomputer that could run physics perfectly, |
0:21.9 | if somehow we could do that, and then also map every atom quark and their spins, etc. |
0:27.1 | perfectly, would we be then able to load the universe in this computer at, and at a faster speed, |
0:34.6 | scrub ahead and predict the future. Obviously, a complete hypothetical, |
0:39.2 | which is next to useless, but perhaps a fun thought experiment. I think if you extrapolate |
0:43.1 | the basics I have laid out, and you probably will, then that would be a pretty good argument |
0:47.1 | for a determinism. I myself prefer free will because it leads to the onus of responsibility |
0:52.4 | on each actor, but if we had such a system in such a hypothetical computer, it would be amusing to see the results, if at least for comparison |
1:00.1 | for the actual outcome. Perhaps you could use it to solve for X, in this case being free will, |
1:05.4 | or it would predict the future perfectly. Yeah, I mean, these are, this is dangerous shit to |
1:10.5 | mess around with. Honestly, this is really, oh, if we load it, first of all, you mean, these are, this is dangerous shit to mess around with. Honestly, this is |
1:12.1 | really, oh, if we load it. First of all, you can't, obviously, I know, you know, it's a thought |
1:16.0 | experiment that's mostly nonsense, but you couldn't possibly load the entire universe into a supercomputer. |
1:20.9 | It's, it's not possible. Because, I mean, just look at the speed of light, right? Right. So the universe is, you know, billions of light years across. |
1:30.2 | So you couldn't get the information about every quark in the universe |
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