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Atoms and existentialism

When playing pool, if you make a shot there's a set way the balls will react. That is because the balls are made of atoms. As atoms bounce off of one another, they create a chain reaction and they continue to bounce. If you took the same shot over and over, it'd play out the same way. This is thanks to atoms.

So thinking on that, does that mean that from the moment of the big bang, every little detail of earth, the universe, and everything beyond was decided at that point? Seeing as the atoms would eventually bounce in such a way to set it up.

That must mean free agency is a lie. We've never made a decision, physics has already decided what we were going to do.

Or maybe I'm just going mad and in desperate need of sleep
reflectingmonkey · 51-55, M
the question of free-will vs determinism is one of these eternal debates in philosophy, to have free-will the mind would have to be able to produce pure randomness, like a movement that has no previous causal origin. I personally choose to let this one be an unanswerable question.
sleep will help
ATOMS follow a different set of rules at the atomic scale, the Pool Balls are pure Newtonian, not quanta.
an very few things happen [i]exactly the same way[/i]
Siril · 22-25, M
@plaguewatcher I never even considered the scales. I must have been really tired
Existentialism is predicated on the idea that everyone can take personal responsibility for their life and the decisions/purpose they make for their life to overcome life’s inherent absurdity.
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@Whatisinaname you really dont understand the process, do you.
models of reality ( like the big bang senario) reflect what we learn and
[b]CHANGE[/b] to reflect new information
a "LIE" is a deliberate untruth, stating a thing [i]you know is untrue[/i]

[b]one can be wrong, without lying.[/b]
one can guess a truth, and be right,
[i]without understanding[/i]

the big bang senario, reflects ( reflected) what the information we have suggests.

DO a wikipedia on it for more info,
(including opposing ideas)
no.. im the driver of my atoms.. *about face.. forward march*
I saw a girl clear the table in one shot (on a video) 😊

 
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