that that question itself is absurd, if there was 'nothing' and there
was a 'why' to that 'nothing'; if it had a cause, then there wouldn't
be nothing, there would be the cause: something.
so at no point can any explanation refer to a state where the universe
had not yet decided to go either
well, john cage is a musician who people talk about a great deal more
than listen to
Somebody once wrote a piece of music which in fact involved not
writing a piece of music at all.
The score of the piece merely instructs the pianist to sit down, open
the lid of the piano and wait out a
...Karl Popper did make an attempt to explain
free-will in term of self-diagonalization indeed. The basic and
simple idea is that IF I can totally predict myself, then I have the
opportunity to refute such a prediction. This is why in a trial your
lawyer cannot invoke determinacy (like my
however, as a person's local environment might plausibly contain a
computer which modeled their local environment and predicted their
behaviour. so the model would actually have to model itself,
Why assume the computer is part of the person's environment?
because it might be.
now
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