A Fragile Living Skin
Continued from:
- Introduction
- The Free Will Tyrant
- Free Will T: Mammals, Human
- History Is Led By Outliers Of A Group
- The Impact on Concepts Like Justice
- The Interplay of Individual and Collective Freedom
- Footnotes
Introduction
The distribution of steam molecules in a room, how the molecules will change location and how long it will take for them to become water again are all potentially determinable. However, at the most fundamental scale of where each molecule is exactly and where it is moving from and to, it becomes increasingly difficult and fuzzy – in fact, at the sub-atomic level, certainty becomes impossible. [1] Certainty (determinism) at any scale is only approximate – the smaller the scale or the larger the field (including space-time) in question, the more difficult it becomes to measure and to calculate all the variables. [2] Entropy is the universe’s way of ensuring we are all honest players when it comes to knowing the future, though some may know more than others.
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Vincent van Gogh, “Landscape with Snow”, 1888, Wikipedia, public domain.