Happy birthday Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827), French mathematical physicist (who incidentally, did invaluable work in geophysics). He was pretty hard-headed and probably didn’t really have any imaginary friends, but nonetheless Laplace’s Demon is my 3rd in the series of Imaginary Friends of Science. In 1814, when he envisioned an entity such
#linocut #printmaking #histsci #MastoArt #Laplace #LaplacesDemon #physics #determinism #ImaginaryFriends #Science
There a lot of people here who knows more about #physics than myself, so I wonder what you guys think about this video. It is fascinating, but it still feels wrong.
https://youtu.be/EjZB81jCGj4?si=UQ6v2RD3M8DbBAXB #determinism
OBS: Turn on CC if you don't speak Portuguese, there are available English subtitles.
#Stanford #scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don’t have #freewill
https://its-interesting.com/2024/04/22/stanford-scientist-after-decades-of-study-concludes-we-dont-have-free-will/
#robertsapolsky #primates #determinism
Free will is a fiction helpful to capitalism. In that it ignores all the possible choices made for us by others and attributes all choices after that as our own.
Our choices are limited by who we were born to, where we were born, how much money our parents have, what languages we speak, the availability of education, the local religion, our family's place in society's hierarchy, our assigned gender, our peers, if a foreign government decides to intervene, whether we have enough food or not, are but just a few non-choices in our lives that determine our future behaviour or beliefs.
The vast majority of people neither have free will under a hierarchical system devoted to capital, nor can they have success as society defines it. Their choices are constrained to make the lives of the rich more comfortable.
Which is why capitalism cannot fix poverty, because it views the poor as having an ability to "choose" to not be poor. In essence, capitalism can never change something that it needs to survive. In the same way it cannot fix wealth inequality, homelessness, racial inequalities, or any of the other problems that it leaves to fester.
Capitalism benefits from the illusion of free will. It tries to convince us that we have a choice to be successful or not, but to do that we must disregard everything about our current living conditions and all the barriers put up to keep money in the hands of the already wealthy.
Finished #audiobook Fluke by Brian Klaas. I wanted to like this but the whole way I kept thinking, most of us work through these thoughts when we're in our teens or twenties, don't we? There's nothing wrong with the book and I'm sure it has an audience but I guess I'm not it. 
#bookstodon #nonfiction #determinism
Do you want to watch someone make synth music while discussing autism and free will?
#synth #electronicMusic #autism #freeWill #determinism @autisticadvocacy @actuallyautistic
Pragmatist that I am, I've been spending a lot of time over the past 24h to abstract & extract the fixed timestep/lockstep simulation update logic so that I (or others) don't need to re-implement the boilerplate for this type of update cycle for each new project. So a new (small) package is born:
Aside from the main update logic which entirely separates simulation state (and its update/integration) from rendering state (which will be derived/interpolated), the package also provides convenience wrappers for numeric or vector-based state variables. These are very useful, since the update logic requires 3 distinct versions of each sim state var: previous, current (next) and its interpolated version. Only the latter should be used outside the simulation (e.g. for rendering). It's all explained in the readme and the classic article by Glenn Fiedler (from 2004) upon which the core logic is based on...
In related news, I've also uploaded an updated version of #Bubblemania which is fully deterministic now (pixel perfection verified several times via difference images exported after 1000 and 2000 frames). Obviously I cannot update the version on fx(hash), but you can just copy your hash & params query string and append it as I've done here:
after seeing this*, i wanted my own trolley!
so i wanted to do something with the #multiverse and the implied question of #determinism and as visualization of such is rather laborious, lazy as i am, i somehow ended up with a #moebius trolley
#philosophy #ethics #trolley #meme #memes #mamema
*https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2458659-sisyphus-sisyphus-pushing-a-boulder
Fascism 2023: Discussion: Individual cognitive disfunction and emotional coping mechanisms explain a lot of what goes on at Trump rallies and Alternatives for Germany and Golden Dawn events.
In reply to @Maura_resister
@project1enigma suggests that a disease model of global fascism trend denies "agency" of perps. W/O going into debate on freewill and determinism good point but OTOH #pandemic modeling can yield insights. Remember that #Darwin (not RichardDawkins) recognized that #memes or #ideas transmit subject to #naturalselection forces. Preventive medicine intervention models may be appropriate in planning prevention of epidemic spread; indeed epidemiological framework is an appealing approach to what is essential mass psychopathology.
Stop screen reader hashtags follow. Keywords: #disease #fascism #medicalmodel #epidemiology #freewill #determinism #SamHarris #RichardDawkins #naturalselection #evolution #memes #psychopathology #WilhelmReich #criticaltheory #Marcuse
