Sabine Hossenfelder recently posted this video on Youtube, this is my comment:
Does Superdeterminism save Quantum Mechanics? Or does it kill free will and destroy science? <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytyjgIyegDI> I strongly agree with Sabine Hossenfelder that "free will" is incoherent nonsense, but I strongly disagree with her advocacy of superdeterminism. Even if the laws of physics were as deterministic as Newton thought they were and you knew all of them you still couldn't make a prediction unless you knew the initial conditions, that's why I think "superdeterminism" is a pretty good name. When scientists talk about plain old vanilla style Newtonian "determinism" they're only talking about the laws of physics, but superdeterminism means more than that, it's also talking about initial conditions. Occam's Razor says that if 2 theories agree with observations equally well then the theory with the fewest assumptions (*NOT* the fewest outcomes) is the one to be preferred. It would be absolutely impossible for superdeterminism to contain more assumptions than it does, depending on if the universe is infinite or not and if space and time are quantized or continuous, superdeterminism demands either an astronomical number to an astronomical power of independent assumptions, or more likely an infinite number of such assumptions. You can get more out of a good theory then you put into it, in fact that's what a "good theory" means. but that would be impossible with superdeterminism because it requires an infinite input. Superdeterminism violates Occam's Razor just as badly as the God hypothesis does because they both need to invoke infinity in their assumptions. Superdeterminism assumes that out of the (probably) infinite number of states the universe could've been in at the time of the Big Bang it was actually in the one and only one specific state that would prevent experimenters on the planet Earth 13.8 billion years later from ever performing a simple experiment that would unequivocally show that the world is indeed deterministic, the God hypothesis assumes the existence of an infinitely powerful infinitely intelligent being. By contrast the Many Worlds Theory only makes one assumption, Schrodinger's Equation means what it says. So Many Worlds wins. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> -- 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/CAJPayv1YBWRDtagjez97hQGcFgmboKSqZ2PyX_1JvxQP64R9xg%40mail.gmail.com.
