Katy Elphinstone<p>How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy, [gender determinism], or capitalism?</p><p>First, you never admit that the order is imagined [probably not even to yourself].</p><p>You always insist that the order sustaining society is an objective reality created by the great gods or by the laws of nature.</p><p>Yuval Harari, Sapiens </p><p>*Words in brackets are my own.</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/determinism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>determinism</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biology</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/humanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humanity</span></a></p>
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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦<p>“The recognition that <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23technology" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technology</a> is political constituted an important ideological breakthrough since it overcame the fatalism of <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23technological" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technological</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23determinism" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#determinism</a>, long a staple of <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23capitalist" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#capitalist</a> apologetics” - <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23DavidNoble" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DavidNoble</a>, Progress Without People: New Technology, Unemployment and the Message of Resistance</p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>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 <br>🧵<br><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Laplace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Laplace</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/LaplacesDemon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaplacesDemon</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/determinism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>determinism</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/ImaginaryFriends" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ImaginaryFriends</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a></p>
The Krononaut Moon Project 🌑<p> <br>Understanding <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Quantum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Quantum</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Mechanics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mechanics</span></a> #3: <a href="https://me.dm/tags/NonLocality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NonLocality</span></a> </p><p>❛❛ <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Quantum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Quantum</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Mechanics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mechanics</span></a>, it seems, then forces you to give up on <a href="https://me.dm/tags/determinism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>determinism</span></a> & <a href="https://me.dm/tags/locality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>locality</span></a>. It is fundamentally unpredictable & <a href="https://me.dm/tags/nonlocal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nonlocal</span></a>. ❜❜ 5:00/7-min. </p><p>🔗 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL9wWeEmQvo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=XL9wWeEmQv</span><span class="invisible">o</span></a> 2020 May 29 <br>🔗 <a href="https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_nonlocality" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">Wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_non</span><span class="invisible">locality</span></a> <br>🎓 h/t <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.ca/@teledyn" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>teledyn</span></a></span> for thoughts on non-locality. </p><p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/Community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Community</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/TimeTravel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimeTravel</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Research</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/spacetime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spacetime</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/BellsTheorem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BellsTheorem</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>video</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Kronodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kronodon</span></a></p>
Matemático Fã do Euler<p>There a lot of people here who knows more about <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> than myself, so I wonder what you guys think about this video. It is fascinating, but it still feels wrong.<br><a href="https://youtu.be/EjZB81jCGj4?si=UQ6v2RD3M8DbBAXB" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/EjZB81jCGj4?si=UQ6v2R</span><span class="invisible">D3M8DbBAXB</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/determinism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>determinism</span></a><br>OBS: Turn on CC if you don't speak Portuguese, there are available English subtitles.</p>
Thomas<p>The case against <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Reductionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reductionism</span></a> and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Determinism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Determinism</span></a> built by <a href="https://mas.to/tags/RobertRosen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RobertRosen</span></a> is very solid. Yet it's hard work to get workers trained in theoretical frameworks to consider it.</p>
notBread 🏴☠️<p>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. </p><p>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.</p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>[ <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/freewill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freewill</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/determinism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>determinism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antiCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antiCapitalism</span></a> ]</p>
Ben Lockwood, PhD<p>I’ve got a piece exploring the intersection of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/determinism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>determinism</span></a>, and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> in Alex Garland’s Ex Machina–check it out here in the latest issue of Seize The Press: </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nonfiction</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scifi</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.seizethepress.com/2024/02/10/lockwood-stp9/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">seizethepress.com/2024/02/10/l</span><span class="invisible">ockwood-stp9/</span></a></p>
Jim Donegan 🎵 ✅<p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RichardSwinburne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RichardSwinburne</span></a> - How <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/FreeWill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeWill</span></a> Probes <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Mind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mind</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Consciousness</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzpWz5n4sMY" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=tzpWz5n4sM</span><span class="invisible">Y</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PhilosophyOfFreeWill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhilosophyOfFreeWill</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PhilosophyOfConsciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhilosophyOfConsciousness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PhilosophyOfMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhilosophyOfMind</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Intentionality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Intentionality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Causation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Causation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Neuroscience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Determinism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Determinism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Indeterminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indeterminism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/QM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/QuantumMechanics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumMechanics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/QuantumPhysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumPhysics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Physics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/CloserToTruth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CloserToTruth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RobertKuhn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RobertKuhn</span></a></p>
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