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Another free will/determinism question

The Grey Man

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No physical acitivities can be proven with 100% certainty..

There is no determinism. Determinism only exists for ideas ie, math or code or language dictionaries (abstract things)

1+1 will always be 2.

But you can never EXACTLY determine how far the ball will go when you throw it.

From the largest to the smallest Objects (ie, things which exist outside our mental designs), there will always be atlease SOME Error of prediction.

When nothing can be predicted, where is determinism coming from?
All we can do is make things practically deterministic for our everyday purposes.

So, as no real determinism exists anywhere, i dont see why one would have to think about free will..

All we can do is correlate.
Determinism needs you to " exactly DEFINE" an object and understand the CAUSALITY in systems. But, there is no way to really percieve "causality" we will never be able to reach determinism, all we can do is better and better approximations, with error->0 but never reaching zero.

So, be free because there are no chains because you are a real object not an abstract concept like the number 4 for example :)

"Errors are not in the art, but they are in the artificers." -Newton

The uncertainty of a predictive apparatus says nothing about whether or not determinism is in effect. Uncertainty is the semblance of randomness caused by a gap in knowledge that defines a range of possibilities (not things that could happen, but things we can't confirm will not happen based on what we know) which collapses into one when the gap is filled, exposing and eliminating that semblance (or so it seems) from the perspective of he-who-remembers. Whether these truly are semblances, or evidence of observation and random universe generation defining one, the other, or each other is irrelevant. What is relevant is that the absence of free will persists in both cases.
 
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