On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 11:19 AM Philip Thrift <[email protected]> wrote:
> > *What about**The Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics* > Gerard 't Hooft > <https://arxiv.org/search/quant-ph?searchtype=author&query=Hooft%2C+G+%27> > https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.1548 What about it? Gerard t Hooft is a fan of superdeterminism, it says that out of the infinite number of ways the initial conditions of the universe could have been in it was actually in the only one where things were so hyper precisely arranged 13.8 billion years ago that today we always make exactly precisely the wrong choice whenever we set up our experiments, so we always end up getting fooled and think some things are not deterministic when they really are. That's a lot to swallow. I'm comfortable with the universe being indifferent to us but if superdeterminism is true then it's downright sadistic; although if true we must be mighty damn important if something went to the trouble of setting up the entire universe in the only way that would make fools of beings that would live on a average planet orbiting a average star in a average galaxy in 13.8 billion years. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3VszGDzswwo5c8VxDB8s6BLon_KfCAzFeU6C%3DJRDk1oA%40mail.gmail.com.
