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#determinism

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Ele Willoughby, PhD

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
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#linocut #printmaking #histsci #MastoArt #Laplace #LaplacesDemon #physics #determinism #ImaginaryFriends #Science

My linocut print of Laplace’s Demon. The demon, who looks like Laplace with giant long-horn cattle horns seated in the lotus position with his palms together as in prayer, is printed in black. Between his horns is space in black with comets, galaxies, stars and planets carved away showing in white. Around him are deep yellow radiating triangles and the words “Laplace’s Demon” following the shape of the horns.
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notBread 🏴‍☠️

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

[ #freewill #determinism #antiCapitalism ]

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Björn Brembs

Prof. Nicolas Gisin, University of Geneva.
"Imagine that at school you would have learned to name the so-called 'real number' using the more appropriate terminology of 'random numbers'. Would you believe in scientific determinism?"

Is #determinism a religion, or, at best, a persistent myth that refuses to succumb despite decades of experimental falsifications?

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Gregory B Sadler

The third & fourth antinomies in the dialectic of pure reason, as Kant develops it in his Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics are "dynamical" and deal with causality. Here's a core concept video discussing them

youtu.be/E0nYB9cBBYo
#Video #Kant #Antinomy #Ideas #Metaphysics #Causality #Cosmological #Freedom #Determinism #Necessity

YouTubeImmanuel Kant, Prolegomena | The Dynamical Antinomies | Philosophy Core ConceptsBy Gregory B. Sadler
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