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By: D’ino I’talles
I had just finished watching a movie Our ideas about the future are is boring. It is also wrong.” Quantum same outcome, but a few will deviate with a friend of mine when I changed deeply rooted in physics. Classical shows us that the only predictable from the norm. Science still works, so physics worked for centuries and it’s part of the world is the most likely I will breathe a sigh of relief. the channel to find The Matrix event. The statistical nature of the Reloaded was already in progress. easy enough that it dominates our Although I was pleased by this find, philosophical understanding of world provides “choice” to the most Most characters in the Matrix she groaned at the sight of it and nature. If I push on an object, it will fundamental building blocks of the thought with the tired deterministic began to complain. “Change the move in a predictable path. Under universe. The Heisenberg Uncertainty dogma of a computer. No one quite channel. I can’t watch this. It makes identical circumstances, the exact Principle is really saying that we can’t knew what to make of Neo because no sense.” I hear this quite often and same outcome will always result. have all the information about a he was the result of an anomaly, which shouldn’t be possible within I still feel like I have to defend this Every effect has a cause, and one system, so we can’t know the movie. This is a movie that disguises cause always leads to the same outcome with 100% certainty. the programming of a computer. But several philosophical studies behind effect. This is known as causality or Classical physics still works because he made his own fate and defied bullets, trench coats, and fights. Even determinism. But this becomes a we hardly ever notice quantum reason with his notion of choice. more appealing to me is that the problem when you consider that the effects on the scale that we live in. premise of the movie follows the present and future are set and debate between the classical and determined by the past. This suggests Although we can’t predict what a And because many people cite quantum understandings of our that the future is already written and single atom can do, we can predict determinism as a conflict between we have no free will. So why are you what a large number of atoms will do world. religion and science, I will pose two here? As the Merovingian noted, with great confidence. This is rooted questions to you. If everything is in the idea of entropy introduced by The prime example is Neo’s refusal to “choice is an illusion.” thermodynamics. Everyone describes already decided and we’re just here accept fate. The Oracle tells him that he is only doing what he is destined But before you get depressed on me, it as “disorder” and “disorder always to understand it, what is God doing? to. Smith talks about inevitability and I will provide you with a quote from increases,” but it just means that the And if you believe that you have Morpheus talks about prophesy. The my quantum physics book. system tends to simplify itself to a morals and ethics, how different are Merovingian tells Neo that he has no “Determinism is a dehumanizing more uniform and predictable state, you from everyone else? choices and is bound by causality. philosophy. It describes a universe or what we would call “ideal” when that is infinitely predictable, holding we should say “easier to study.” Just And the Architect, perhaps the least understood character, describes Neo few surprises. All can be known; as people with a choice, most nothing is unexpected. Determinism particles tend to conform to the as a “systemic anomaly.”
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