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 determinism does not rule out entropy or chaotic dynamics, those can be created easily with feedback systems of all kinds... for example, the three body problem... 
 Determinism assumes that truth is static and real, which can’t be the case because everything vibrates. I would say determinism is mostly the case but only within a single observational spacial point, the future and past cannot be fully observed and thus cannot be deterministic 
 Wtf has nothing to do with vibration or “truth” 
I believe that every physical event has a consequence that is determined by laws of physics, as such every state is a consequence of a previous state in other words DETERMINED by the previous state.   I do not have guesses where the starting point was but everything what followed was determined by the starting state. Put in a sprinkle of multiverse theory and everything that can happen has happened. Biological bodies are part of physical realm hence no free will. 
Please don’t mistaken this to nihilism. 
 The uncertainty principal proves determinism wrong. 

Determinism would deny the validity or importance of categorical data, which I don’t agree with. 
 abstractions are not erased by determinism, they are models not things, not subject to physical laws 
 Then explain chemistry 
 what i just wrote before about the combinatorial complexity of states, this is even more the case as we are talking about the positions of gazillions of molecules and tehir associated particles (photons, electrons, protons, etc etc)

they only become predictable given control of their mixing within specific narrow conditions of their state space

reaction equilibrium, for example, relates to the level of energy lost in the transformation, and the energy required to undo this transformation - if you put too much energy in, it can go to other states instead

again, some of it doesn't do all the same thing, this is why purification is always a key step in chemistry... even 0.1% contamination can completely stop a reaction from taking place 
 i'm not saying that the world is not mostly deterministic, but the uncertainty principal makes 100% determinism impossible  
 i think it is logically impossible for a product of a system to model the system itself with enough precision to really see ethe future beyond a certain degree of detail of the states of the system

so it's not that it isn't predictable, it can't be predicted by us

by God yes, not by us, nor anything within this universe 
 Potato’s make electricity. I have 10,000 in my backyard powering a s9 

Science 🌈 
 they could, by fermenting them into alcohol fuel :D 
 See? I know stuff 😂😂😂😂 
 well you could fead the taters to pigs and catch the gas from their poop too 
 Oh man thank you 🤗 🤗 
 Just wanted to insert myself with some nonsense to break up the intelligence 😂 
 Opposite, you have rescued the most braindead convo on the protocol 
 Aww. You haven’t read my poop thread yet 🫂 you flatter me 
 Lol 😅 
 in order to make the effort to do any science at all you have to make the assumption that the system's parameters can be contained such that you can artificially cause an effect to occur

it is illogical to assume that you can't do this and the advance of science is entirely about discovering the conditions of replication, and has not ceased to allow us to uncover new things for thousands of years at least 
 nothing is 100% probable bro believe it or not you could die at any moment 
 Fuck just go back to school bro 
 Y so rude 
 Yep ✌️ 
 Did unfollow you already so i don’t have to get rude again. Bye 😘 
 i work with 256 bit large integers all the time with my code and the number that they can count is more than the estimated number of atoms in the universe

almost everything in the physical universe has more state space, so, determinism in the sense of reproducability requires you to massively narrow down the possible states of a phenomena to funnel it through the one you want to recur, and it's not ever really a perfect repetition 
 Sory, this is just a word salad 
 That’s not what my dad says 🥹👍 
 Than ask him to come debate,maybe he’s able to express himself in coherent language 
 i've done  a lot of experiments and self-observation regarding free will, it's a paradox

the entire phenomenon of learning is based on making decisions to respond in one way or another

from what i know of number theory it's just so far beyond predictable what it will do that it is effectively not possible to predict much of it

you really can't compare any two given experiences with each other because they simply are not the same 
 i think it's not that it isn't deterministic, but rather that it cannot be simulated accurately within the same system and thus is impossible to predict to any meaningful degree beyond some time horizon