Saturday, July 13, 2024

The law against Omniscience

Before making the decision, you do not know what decision you will make. (The corollary is that once you have made the decision you lose the freedom of choice.)

Seems tautological. (And it is, I think)

The interesting part is that this resonates deeply in with the fundamental laws against omniscience -- the most interesting example being the classical proof for the halting problem.  The "diagonalization" trick only works if you presume there is a way to predict whether some arbitrary program halts, so that you can just do the opposite thing.

And thus we obtain a link between Free Will and the Law against Omniscience.


Ogi Ogas calls it the "Failsafe Supreme". I think it's just a universal law of free will (which, we could imbue intentions into it, but seems unnecessary).


I mean, the whole system is crafted so beautifully. If "we" created this, we must be such immensely powerful beings before we forgot who we were...

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