Are the robots we create alive?
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"Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills." Or so it was once said.
I can imagine that the world might be entirely deterministic if you could truly know all the laws of the universe and all the states of matter and energy within. But I don't like the idea that people are how they are in a deterministic way rather than there being some non-deterministic quality to our free will. I think most of us would prefer the latter.
I'll end that thought with my cryptic answer to the question of the meaning and purpose of life: To be happy matter.
Presumably, that answer could be rewritten in a way that equals 42.
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The problem of non-determinism in quantum mechanics goes beyond the redundancy turning it from non-deterministic into deterministic on average.
The results of the double-slit experiment pointed in the direction that quantum mechanics reacts to observers.
If you assume an electron is a wave and observe it like a wave, it will behave like a wave. If you assume it is a particle and observe it like a particle, it will behave like a particle. You can drastically change the result of the experiment, simply by choosing how you look at it.
