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Dd_8630 t1_j9hg2va wrote
Reply to comment by ADhomin_em in Often mischaracterized as a rather debaucherous, hedonistic philosophy, Epicureanism actually focuses on the removal of pain and anxiety from our lives, and champions a calm ‘philosophy as therapy’ approach in pursuit of life’s highest pleasure: mental tranquility. by philosophybreak
>How are we to judge those deviations to be free of anything?
We can't.
Remember, I'm responding to the 'what if' of 'what if there was truely random swerve'. If there was true random swerve, then I could see how evolutionary processes could exploit that. I'm not say we can determine whether or not atoms have truely random swerve.
Dd_8630 t1_j9gajj6 wrote
Reply to comment by slithrey in Often mischaracterized as a rather debaucherous, hedonistic philosophy, Epicureanism actually focuses on the removal of pain and anxiety from our lives, and champions a calm ‘philosophy as therapy’ approach in pursuit of life’s highest pleasure: mental tranquility. by philosophybreak
>I don’t see how random deviation of atoms would cause free will. It would break determinism, but only so to cause random behavior.
It's easy to take random noise and turn it into meaningful results. Look at Perlin noise generators or how video games use seeds.
I can happily believe that true random 'swerve' of simple elements can be exploited by evolutionary processes to lead to a sort of 'weighted decision maker'. Couple that to consciousness and you've got free will.
Dd_8630 t1_j2bsp18 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Before Newton, how did people explain falling apples? by maugustus
>Some physicists are questioning if General Relativity is totally accurate.
No physicist has ever thought that GR is totally accurate, not even Einstein. We've known from the very beginning that GR and QM are incomplete.
>The simulation has limits so the extreme edges "break" the rules.
What rules does it break? The universe is under no obligation to obey human intuition.
>It is possible the universe is the same way...
That's absolutely nothing to suggest that it is. We humans evolved to have an intuitive understanding of the world we interact with; therefore, we should expect physics to diverge from our evolved intuition when we go beyond humans scales - namely, the very small, very large, very vast, very hot, very rarefied, etc. Go beyond STP and scales of metres and seconds, and we should expect to hit counterintuitive results.
It would be more indicative of a contrived simulation if we didn't encounter edge weirdness.
Dd_8630 t1_jc9zqoa wrote
Reply to comment by mfb- in Radon is a monatomic gas, but its decay products are solids. After a decay, what happens to the individual atoms of the daughter elements? Do they stay suspended in the atmosphere or slowly rain out? by foodtower
Not necessarily milliseconds. It can take minutes for an atom of gad in STP atmosphere to bumble its way to a room's wall.