Determinism be like: You are safely traveling along THE ONLY WAY.
this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2023
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That kinda makes worrying about anything sound really dumb, doesn't it?
But you'll worry anyway, as your anxiety is a product of your biochemistry, which is governed by deterministic processes.
First of all is determinism not proven and may be/get disproven by quantum mechanics.
Second of all it also validates your suffering because it's seen as a determined thing to happen so that may give you some solice.
I recommend taking a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbow_Room_%28Dennett_book%29?wprov=sfla1
remain ignorant
Man i was going to close the physics lecture and sleep and now i dont think i can sleep anymore
You can't change what has already happened. Learn from it, analyze it, but don't dwell on it for too long.
There is always a tomorrow. The feelings of today don't have to influence the feelings of tomorrow, next week, or next month.
Cypher: Ignorance is bliss
Cool. So can you offer me a job? I’ll do anything as long as I can afford to take care of my family.
Looks like one of those chaos curves mathematicians analyse.
What the fuck is that
ELI5:
Imagine some sort of a polynomial function f(x) = r * x * (1-x) that is also depending on some constant r in range 0 < r < 1.
You apply x = f(x) for many times, at your wish. Think of it as a for-loop, or f(f(f(...f(f(x))...))). The resulting value will reside (converge) to some value.
So, this looped function sets to some stable point with any r in range until x < 3. After that, it doesn't converge but it will constantly jump between one of 2 points, then 4, 8, ... and at some point it goes wacky-macky.
The graph from Wikipedia merely shows the probability of the value f(f(f(...f(f(x))...))) for all r in the given range.
If you're curious, Veritasium's made a good explanation here: https://youtu.be/ovJcsL7vyrk
Was that Schopenhauer or Kierkegaard?
Close, it's a cat.