Dear brain. I do not want to work on indeterminism vs determinism (free will) to

Dear brain. I do not want to work on indeterminism vs determinism (free will) today. As much as you want me to write about it, the argument is quite simple: when we hypothesize, or intuit a response, the information is incomplete and as evidence shows, highly susceptible to error. So you can say that we exist in the universe, and that there are limits to our constructible concepts. But I would argue that those limits are produced by the limits of our ability to act, and as such any expansion of those limits is not meaningful for us. So the universe may be roughly deterministic at a macro level, and there may be a limited domain of cognition and action for man within that universe, but inside of those limits we have the free will necessary to act at the scale we are capable of acting within. And no other limit would be logical for an organism to evolve.

But no matter how much you nag me, I am not in the mood to write about that subject. (yes, I know, you are stuck on it and want to get it out.) But I am much more interested in limits to perception and calculation. And even if you make me forget what I was going to write, I will remember it later, and write about it then. 🙂 So today, I am going to wrestle with explaining that to people. (If you will please just let me remember the example I was going to use… dammit…).


Source date (UTC): 2015-07-01 00:30:00 UTC

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