Re: The Barren Desolate Wasteland of Superdeterminism

From: Joe Dees (joedees@addall.com)
Date: Sat Jan 26 2002 - 01:15:46 GMT

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    > <salice@gmx.net> memetics@mmu.ac.ukDate: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:45:12 +0100
    > Re: The Barren Desolate Wasteland of SuperdeterminismReply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
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    >On 25 Jan 2002, at 0:24, Philip Jonkers wrote:
    >
    >> Although truly inventive they never managed to do just that, in fact every
    >> test gave results in harmony with QM predictions.
    >> QM has stood the tooth of time for too long to discard it by arguments
    >> of a hand-waving, religious or down-right emotional flavor.
    >
    >Well, what survived throughout the history of QM is that we don't
    >understand how certain probabilites and statistics come about. But
    >this doesn't mean that they are a result of indeterministic or
    >random processes.
    >
    >> Nature seems to
    >> be intrinsically indeterministic at small enough scales.
    >
    >Nature seems to be hard to understand and hard to observe at
    >small enough scales. QM gives the answer, like all religions, to the
    >momentary unexplainable.
    >
    Funny, it seems to me that this is exactly what superdeterminism proposes to do, and in the absence of confirming evidence.
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