On Mon, 7 Sep 2020 at 21:36, John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 2:33 AM Philip Thrift <cloudver...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > > *I am also personally offended that Baggott gives short shrift to >> superdeterminism.* >> > > Don't worry about it, nobody ever died from being offended. > > > *He either mistakenly or accidentally leaves the reader with the >> impression that these have been ruled out for good, which is most >> definitely not the case.* >> > > Nobody will ever be able to prove that superdeterminism is untrue, it's > specifically engineered in such a way to make sure that could never happen, > but it is certainly possible to prove that superdeterminism is silly. It > says that in order for the world to be the way it appears to be now the > initial conditions of the universe 13.8 billion years ago MUST have been in > one and only one SUPER specific starting condition, > Isn’t that just determinism? and in science the more assumptions you have to make in order for your > theory to work the less valuable it is, and it's impossible to imagine a > theory about anything that needs more assumptions to work than > superdeterminism, except perhaps for the God Theory. > > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3Vmw%2BoxWZwJ%2BAOjGECBwuOinAZPBoDXmwi7DLKBHHPZw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3Vmw%2BoxWZwJ%2BAOjGECBwuOinAZPBoDXmwi7DLKBHHPZw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAH%3D2ypUqjHkcPioutnVQ23B72uGfKxO3s2UKZAVa_utmdePG2A%40mail.gmail.com.
