Struan Hellier wrote:
>
> >From your point of view (and in the example you present) you do not see a random decision at all,
> you see one determined by my will. If you ask me to choose between heads or tails you would not come
> to the conclusion that my decision was random, you would conclude that it was determined by my
> choice of whether I wanted to predict heads or tails. From my point of view I see a decision
> determined by my will. No difference, no contradiction and no problem. Both our points of view
> conclude that my will determined my prediction. You may not know what my will is going to determine
> before I pronounce my choice - in other words you are not party to the decision making process going
> on in my head - but ignorance of the outcome is an entirely different matter and not remotely
> related to whether you think my decision is going to be decided for me by some random force or by my
> own will.
I see no real argument here, how can you prove to me that your will is doing the choice and not "some
random force"?
Let's turn it around then, you ask me. And let's say I have an obsessive way of choosing. Whenever someone
asks me heads or tails I have no choice but to look around me and the first number I see determines what
I choose. If it's even I go for heads, and if it's odd I choose tails. You still think I use my free will
to choose, but the decision will in fact be totally random.
The only person who knows about the scam is me. The rest of the world believes it was my will. How can two
thesis's, randomness and free will, be so amazingly alike for the rest of the world and still be, as you said,
antithesis's?
In your post from Tue 25:
> Furthermore, if they are not observed they behave deterministically.
But Struan, the MoQ is not interested in "not observing". The Quality event *is* observing. The world
would not exist without observing, i.e. the Quality event. Of course, if we absolutely separate an
environment from the rest of the universe, we can objectify this environment and determine how this
environment will behave. But then, this environment will not be a part of our reality and the MoQ is
not interested.
Magnus
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