Do We Live in a Superdeterministic Universe?

If you are watching this video, you have chosen to click on it of your own free will. Whether you were intrigued by our title, the thumbnail, or some other reason, you made the choice to watch our post of your own free will. However, you did this without noticing that your decision was nothing but an illusion! At any rate this is the hypothesis of superdeterminism whose core statement can be summarized as follows: Something like a free will simply does not exist. What applies to the small decisions of everyday life can therefore also be applied to the big picture: All processes that take place in the universe are predetermined, and coincidences are excluded. But what is the background of this unique thesis? Can its basic statement even be scientifically substantiated? Stay tuned, and make your own picture.

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[MikaelaMaverix]

I have a hard time accepting the concept of free will. I mean, when you sit down and think about it... Where do your thoughts come from? Do you "decide" which thoughts to think before you think them? No, you don't. They just pop into your head. I am with Sabine that it is just illogical to think that free will is a thing.

[maxwelldillon]

Superdeterminism is the next and final paradigm in physics, I would bet on it. Plenty are emotionally opposed to it though and might resist this necessary revolution.

[OfficialWestCoastStocks]

If we are to have free will, then we would need to have free thought to determine that free will.
Being that our daily interactions with matter, change that direction each day. It could be said we have no free will.
Only reactions to those things predetermined. So in realty the act of having free will is also Superdeterministic.
And endless loop, of the hypothesis. To exist means that we effect the matter and world around us. If true?
Then others would have that same effect. Also effecting freewill to choose. Because the choice would change at will based on the Superdeterministic value.

[blueindigoqueen]

Yes 🙌🏼 thank u for this new video! Saving this nugget for later please keep these interesting space videos coming 💙💜

[caricue]

It's funny how the word "determine" is used almost exclusively for mental processes, even at the most basic level when the video said that you couldn't necessarily determine the outcome of an event because of hidden variables, this is a mental exercise. Somehow this mental idea gets grafted onto the physical world and people start to think that atoms "determine" what happens in molecules, or even determine what you think and feel. Atoms and molecules are passive objects and don't determine anything.

Macro objects, like living organisms set up circumstances where the atoms and molecules will react in the way needed by the organism. The particles have no preference or choice, and will happily participate in whatever reaction in which they find themselves. Determinism is not a thing in nature, we live in a universe that features reliable causation, which is how the whole universe functions.

[YoungGandalf]

I believe in a superdeterministic universe, but the "hidden variables" at the quantum scale are too numerous and complex for the human mind to comprehend or measure. It's easier to just behave as if our consciousness has free will.

[david_porthouse]

Superdeterminism is a toy idea of John Bell to deal with a certain apparent issue in quantum mechanics. It is ludicrous to extrapolate it to an argument against free will when it is just a tentative idea at this stage.

And Bell got it wrong by the way. He overlooked the fact that his putative Lorentz transformation which apparently exchanges cause and effect is just a piece of metaphysics. You can believe in superdeterminism anyway if you like, but it doesn’t solve any problems.

Don’t blame Bell too much. He was just thinking aloud.

[glenjennett]

Telling me right at the start that i chose to watch this video almost makes me choose to stop watching it.

[datura_boof]

superdeterminism explains quantum entanglement and ties things back into einsteins theories. It is my belief. I also am a deist i believe "god" flipped the switch on this universe. God is probably some neckbeard interdimensional being.

[IntoThePit]

The earth is about 4.6 billion yrs old not 6, ooo

[proudbamerican]

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[Oliveir]

Not quite. As a physicist I believe there is deterministic chaos out there. And we will never understand totally until we find out the relation between self organizing universe and more photons lower energy emitted

[Cardioid]

I just hope we reach a convergence of science and spirituality soon to make this existence profoundly meaningful regardless of fate…

[unduloid]

Short answer: No.
Long answer: No, don't be silly!

[vickicherry]

Free will or the right to choose is a God given right!!

[davidmesa]

I'm 100% sure of my destiny because I'm 100% sure that I making the decisions to my self and for my self. I have complete control of my destiny by the trust of me.
Only I can decide the next move, no one else.

[fieldagentisintheforest]

Why would you include the "gender roles" statement at 9:55 in the presentation, ... what does that have to do with physics...?

[mariannepedersenhagen]

i dont think it is so Black and white.
Much more complicated than that. We also don't use our entire brain capacity. In fact, only a small part... If we could suddenly use all of our capacity, I think that our life, the world and the universe would look and be completely different. Had it not been exciting 🌟

[omar]

If we get to have projects like Neuralink to work and ai can get to predict our choices based on the brain activity, then there's no free will

[peanutgallery]

I don't believe anything is predetermined, absolutely free will...