Thou Art Physics — LessWrong

Three months ago—jeebers, has it really been that long?—I posed the following homework assignment: Do a stack trace of the human cognitive algorithms…

x Thou Art Physics — LessWrong Quantum Physics and Many Worlds Physics Adding Up to Normality Rationality Frontpage 169 Thou Art Physics by Eliezer Yudkowsky 6th Jun 2008 4 min read 88 169 Three months ago —jeebers, has it really been that long?—I posed the following homework assignment : Do a stack trace of the human cognitive algorithms that produce debates about “free will.” Note that this task is strongly distinguished from arguing that free will does or does not exist. Now, as expected, people are asking, “If the future is determined, how can our choices control it?” The wise reader can g

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