@thysin,
thysin wrote:I love that movie.
To explain a bit more...
If you take a snapshot of time(with some sort of biometric supercomputer), the smallest possible, that recorded every factor in a given situation...let's say it's something like Plinko from the Price is Right. Every single factor, down to the smallest molecule is recorded in this snapshot. Without any outside factors to influence what will happen when the little disc is dropped, that snapshot is basically an arrow pointing to the next slice of time, and that one an arrow for the next....and so on...so in every instance there is the pattern for the next one....either way I suppose it's not really interesting enough because of it's impracticality with today's technology. Only thing I could see messing with this 'free will'....but that's another can of worms.
Almost everything you said falls in line with Leibniz's Monadology. Leibniz even mentions the notion of frew will in the fundamental question "was Caesar free to cross the Rubicon?" Info from an earlier post I did;
To Leibniz, a substance has to be completely self sufficient, hence we come to Leibniz's
Principle of Sufficient Reason. In Leibniz's PSR, everything has; a) a complete explanation, and b) nothing exists which cannot be fully explained. The complete explanation in Leibniz's PSR
must be contained within the substance. There is also complete reason, which entails that a thing has to be necessary and sufficient. Self sufficiency for Leibniz entails that there be some form of
activity (like a change in property or something like that.) Now, applying PSR, any change must be explained with each substance, but also any properties have to be explained
by itself and not by something else. This is where we get the neat Latin phrase from Leibniz
Phenomena bene fundatum (the well founded phenomena). So, essentially take away the fact that substances cannot be explained by substances. Important now is to understand a few points. Now a substance is self-sufficient, but like what was previously said, it has to be a) active, and b) maintain an active
principle. Also, all properties are representations.
Now shift for a second to
notion notcause, or more precisely, which is the
dominant monad. The monad that
causes is the one which reflects the world most accurately. This makes sense if you review the nature of the three types of monads. Now also think of the nature of appetition and cause and effect. Think of a film strip, where the next state of a captured scene is caused by the previous one. Within each "scene" or really "state," is what has, will, and will come to be already within it (i.e. PSR). You then get into the principles of knowledge, which is probably going too far, but that last sentence was what I was essentially getting at.
because predictions can imply forseeing into the future in a very accurate way (Ex: i can predict the future!) even though it is commonly understood as just a guess of the following events.
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