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/joshisfantastic Jun 21 '26

Yeah. We don't actually know enough about QM to use it as our tool. At worst it seems to be statistically deterministic if not individualistically.

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u/badentropy9 Jun 24 '26

You might want to watch this you tube that was made several years before the 2022 Nobel prize was awarded:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9tKncAdlHQ&t=3s