The Computer Is Cataloging Your Choice

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The computer is only cataloging your choice. The computer isn't predicting from first principles what you're going to do. So it's really just because they have time travel,. But it doesn't mean that your choice didn't determine the future. And there is no way to to show whether or not you could have chosen the other thing. Right. They're just simply isn't the way because you have closed off and it's in essence, you've closed off a bunch of branches by making the choice that you did to press the button. If they could do this without time travel, I would get it. if they could just do it just by scanning like your body and the state of

Is character destiny, or can fluky decisions or tiny shifts in weather patterns fundamentally change who we are? Does the existence or non-existence of alternate universes have any bearing on freedom and responsibility? David and Tamler conclude their discussion of Ted Chiang’s “Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom” along with another very short piece by Chiang called “What’s Expected of Us” that was first published in Nature.

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