Cracking the Facade of Determinism with ChatGPT-4
Free Will Survives
I have people who believe in determinism putting in comments attempting to support that. How could their response in English be predetermined from the Big Bang? Note that this is equivalent to asking about monkeys pecking on a keyboard generating a Shakespeare sonnet or something like that. What’s the probability of even getting an all English text with proper spacing and punctuation given so many languages in the world?
ChatGPT-4
The question you’re asking touches on several deep and complex topics, including determinism, randomness, and the nature of probability. Let’s break it down a bit to understand the different components of your inquiry.
Determinism and Its Implications
Determinism, in a philosophical context, is the idea that all events, including moral choices, are completely determined by previously existing causes. In the context of the universe and the laws of physics, a deterministic view suggests that if we knew all the laws of physics and the initial conditions of the universe at the Big Bang, in principle, we could predict…
