God, Aggression, Genes, and Superdeterminism

Quotes:

“On the contrary we have the Conservatives. Because they believe in this power of Free Will—in the power of choice—they deem that their ancestors worked hard and made their family what it was—possibly affluent, or with status, or social power—they don’t believe in the “accidental” nature of their birth, but, rather, feel privileged and “deserving” of their status in life.  Likewise the Conservative will believe homosexuality is a sin of choice, not predilection by birth. They believe homosexuals simply choose their immoral path and are not compelled or constrained by their biology. If a person gets cancer, the Conservative  believes their “bad actions” caused them to get sick. And if such a man gets stricken with cancer himself, he may believe that by the power of his mind alone can he heal himself. Such a man believes that when he acts, it is his Free Will that shapes his destiny. Such a man believes that everything he does is a product of his Free Will.  In other words, the conservative believes that all that he acquires in life comes to him through the choices he makes—in short, through the exercise of his Free Will.”

“In fact, it was Richard Feynman’s path integral formulation that provides the best evidence to date of superdeterminism in the universe. In that formulation, Feynman points out that the summation of all potential paths from point A to point B effectively yield the probability that the subatomic particle takes that path. In short, even crazy paths that zigzag or go to the moon and back have to be considered. What he said was that ultimately most of these wild, or extreme paths cancel out from nearby paths and therefore don’t contribute to the final amplitude of the path you’re trying to calculate. But this is not purely a math trick. Experiments have been made with diffraction grating that effectively show that if you block the “classical” path and place this diffraction grating nearby, the lines in the grating will block some “destructively” interfering paths. And when these paths are blocked, that mean other paths that wouldn’t ordinarily contribute to the amplitude, docontribute to this final amplitude and hence also contribute to the probability of a photon taking a path from point A to B. In short, what it means, is that practically speaking, the entire universe—with all its mass and energy—may contribute to a photon’s path. And this is exactly the idea behind superdeterminism. Ultimately if everything is one big causal chain, then every event of the universe in the past contributes to the position or momentum of anything that exists now. And if the world is perhaps one big circular chain of causality—one where the end starts the beginning—then you might consider that not only the “past” contributes to the position or momentum of some thing, but the “future” contributes as well.”

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