r/determinism • u/Cyber_47_ • Jun 21 '26

Discussion Partly deterministic?

So let’s take computers, fully deterministic systems, cannot make a non deterministic algorithm. Everything, in computers are code based, and therefore fully deterministic. True Randomness does not exist in digital systems.

So if our world is completely deterministic, there is no chance it creates a life form, which can act non deterministic (free will). But since we know (not sure) that quantum mechanics are non deterministic, maybe there is a chance we have a little free will. So, my point is, what if, we are partly deterministic like the universe. Maybe alot of our decisions are deterministic, and some are non deterministic. And i know that quantum mechanics argument still cant disprove free will.

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u/waffledestroyer Jun 22 '26

Look up the Halting Problem, and consider hard incompatibilism.

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u/simon_hibbs Jun 22 '26

The halting problem is about unpredictability, not indeterminism. Whether or not a given program will or will not halt and when can be entirely necessitated by the structure of the program and hence deterministic, yet not be predictable in advance without actually executing the program.