Free will versus fate
An LJ friend of mine just asked a question that got me wanting to rant about fate and free will. Like many of my rants, I get a bit wander-y.
I would also like to point out that these views are mine alone, and I neither ask nor suggest that anybody else adopt them in whole or in part. My intent is solely to share my fascination.
( One computer scientist's view. )
I would also like to point out that these views are mine alone, and I neither ask nor suggest that anybody else adopt them in whole or in part. My intent is solely to share my fascination.
( One computer scientist's view. )
I don't really care for the "out there" approach; I don't like thinking of the divine will being outside the universe. I prefer to see the entire cosmos as one ginormous intelligence, with its own will and something like an identity (though I'm not sure what good an identity would do for something that makes up everything that exists; why would it want to distinguish itself, and what would it use to do so?).
There's some kind of thought in there about perceiving higher orders of complexity ultimately reducing to lower orders - potentially, that the quarks and leptons and such doing their simultaneous state wackiness are alone the instruments of the ultimate divine will, while simultaneously being essentially mindless and the most ridgidly defined in terms of behavior - thus meaning that the search for intelligence bidirectionally (more complex and less) will ultimately reach the same point, meaning that divine "hierarchy" is actually a circle rather than a line, and the search for God ultimately leads us to ourselves again and again. That would make sense.
... I think somebody slipped LSD into my chai this morning. Back to my SQL scripts...
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Very nice, sir.
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