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AMA | March 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Are There Mathematical Objections to Super Determinism, as Opposed to Just Philosophical Ones?

The origin of the co ordinate system shouldn't in any way be associated with a an observer in any particular relationship. But for certain proximations, in certain circumstances, it made sense to act as if it were true. So we're more honest in generlativity. We just say, you have a coordinate system, and you also have maybe observers, and they have nothing necessarily do with each other. In particular, if there's multiple observers, theyre al o be moving in different places in the coordinate system.

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