I think the comments in reply to this are a really good illustration of how starting a discussion off with confused, unstudied and otherwise poorly framed arguments can doom the entire conversation. It’s like there is a conservation of comment quality- where a reply to a post can never be more than twice as insightful as the OP. Given a sufficiently low quality post any comment that directly engages with it is also low quality.
Agreed, the term determinism is being used in a very non-standard way here.
"a theory is deterministic if, and only if, given its state variables for some initial period, the theory logically determines a unique set of values for those variables for any other period."[10]
—Ernest Nagel, Alternative descriptions of physical state''
I think the comments in reply to this are a really good illustration of how starting a discussion off with confused, unstudied and otherwise poorly framed arguments can doom the entire conversation. It’s like there is a conservation of comment quality- where a reply to a post can never be more than twice as insightful as the OP. Given a sufficiently low quality post any comment that directly engages with it is also low quality.
Agreed, the term determinism is being used in a very non-standard way here.