Potentially, but at least for now I don’t think we have enough evidence to back this. For what we see it seems the universe is not deterministic. So even if you could know ‘your current body state perfectly’ you would still need to include some randomness. If we could predict the future state of a system by its initial configuration then we basically solved chaos theory.
But I agree we are ‘just’ biological machines, and we can predict with high accuracy
We need more than your exact body state, we need the algorithms your body and brain are running as well which I have mentioned in the post.
If the algorithm includes randomness, we will use it. As far as we can observe we are fairly predictable in the short term so it makes sense that whatever randomness exists at the quantum level is corrected when we get to the final decisions, any unpredictability could be due to other inputs we aren’t aware of, like stress, hunger, health issues etc.
Thanks for the pointer to chaos theory, I will look more into it, I need to spend more time to understand why can’t we predict the future of chaotic systems, is it because of our current technology limitations or its impossible to predict independent of technology or science breakthoughs?
Potentially, but at least for now I don’t think we have enough evidence to back this. For what we see it seems the universe is not deterministic. So even if you could know ‘your current body state perfectly’ you would still need to include some randomness. If we could predict the future state of a system by its initial configuration then we basically solved chaos theory.
But I agree we are ‘just’ biological machines, and we can predict with high accuracy
We need more than your exact body state, we need the algorithms your body and brain are running as well which I have mentioned in the post.
If the algorithm includes randomness, we will use it. As far as we can observe we are fairly predictable in the short term so it makes sense that whatever randomness exists at the quantum level is corrected when we get to the final decisions, any unpredictability could be due to other inputs we aren’t aware of, like stress, hunger, health issues etc.
Thanks for the pointer to chaos theory, I will look more into it, I need to spend more time to understand why can’t we predict the future of chaotic systems, is it because of our current technology limitations or its impossible to predict independent of technology or science breakthoughs?