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1 week ago

30 Years Ago, Terry Gilliam Gave Us A Once-In-A-Lifetime Sci-Fi Epic

Before there was River Song in and before there was The Time Traveler's Wife, there was 12 Monkeys. Yes, the 1995 sci-fi thriller is known for its bleak take on the future, and the almost doggedly deterministic message that you (probably) can't escape your own destiny. Jay Gatsby may have believed that you can't repeat the past, but in Terry Gilliam's time travel film, you also can't change it.
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fromBig Think
2 weeks ago

3 philosophical debates from the 20th century that neuroscience is reshaping

Science evolved from philosophy into specialized empirical disciplines and now applies material methods to investigate the mind, confronting enduring philosophical questions like free will.
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fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

You Have Agency...but What Does That Actually Mean?

Quantum indeterminacy undermines strict determinism and supports genuine human agency and choice, influencing experiences of health, behavior, and well‑being.
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Dignity Without Freedom

First, I argued that libertarian free will-that is, the idea that the will can form itself in the mind independently of antecedent causes and conditions-is inconceivable. We can imagine to act differently, but we cannot show that we can. Second, the retreat to a higher-order will, imagined to freely act to create the effective will, merely kicks the can down the alley. Any meta-will begs for a yet higher-order will to be explained, and hence, we end up with an infinite regress of wills.
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fromBig Think
2 months ago

Sean Carroll: Can we ever escape the logic of a clockwork universe?

Classical mechanics implies determinism: complete particle positions and velocities fix past and future, challenging notions of free will.
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fromBencallahan
4 months ago

Where AI is failing design systems, and where we are failing AI - bencallahan.com

Design systems require deterministic, high-quality, durable outputs, so tooling must minimize AI-driven probabilistic instability, inconsistency, and security concerns in production workflows.
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fromBig Think
5 months ago

The Universe requires quantum fields, not just quantum particles

Quantum mechanics reveals a probabilistic universe that cannot be completely predicted, necessitating the framework of quantum field theory for deeper understanding.
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