The techbro fantasy that the brain is a “biological computer” really reminds me of when physicistbros discovered that the fabric of the universe isn’t a “clockwork”.
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 03:38:43 JST Thomas 🔭✨
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 05:27:20 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@zvavybir The universe is not deterministic because quantum mechanics. It is (mathematically provably) impossible to foretell the future of the universe even if you know its current state in indefinite precision.
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zvavybir :palestina: 🍉 (zvavybir@social.zvavybir.eu)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 05:27:25 JST zvavybir :palestina: 🍉
@thomasfuchs I never really understood that debate, so it's no surprise that also now I don't get what you mean, but … what do you mean (iff you're so nice to indulge me)? How isn't the universe (not) a clockwork? I mean, no one thinks there are actual clock gears (I hope), but only that physics follows some rules (which is of course true, or not?).
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 07:03:20 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@Tijn who knew
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Martijn Frazer (tijn@dosgame.club)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 07:03:21 JST Martijn Frazer
@thomasfuchs there's a long history of complicated things being described as the latest tech.
Turns out the brain isn't like a telephone switch either.
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Chris Petrilli (petrillic@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 07:05:39 JST Chris Petrilli
@thomasfuchs :gestures at Stephen Wolfram's nonsense:
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Jeremy List (jeremy_list@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 15:06:40 JST Jeremy List
@thomasfuchs @zvavybir even in classical mechanics the differential equations describing how things move have no analytical solution so it's weird that it took quantum mechanics for people to realise the universe isn't clockwork.
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