{"id":159816,"date":"2023-03-08T09:24:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/computational-irreducibility-in-wolframs-digital-physics-and-free-will"},"modified":"2023-03-08T09:24:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:24:31","slug":"computational-irreducibility-in-wolframs-digital-physics-and-free-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/computational-irreducibility-in-wolframs-digital-physics-and-free-will","title":{"rendered":"Computational irreducibility in Wolfram\u2019s digital physics, and free will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z5Nrl2x2Oho?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/lifebox\/\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Rudy Rucker says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>I\u2019m quite happy with this resolution of the conflict between determinism and free will\u2026<\/p>\n<p>By \u2018free will\u2019 do you mean ability to make an utterly random decision? But what is \u2018utterly random\u2019? If something\u2019s unpredictable, it\u2019s all but indistinguishable from being random, no?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rudy Rucker says: I\u2019m quite happy with this resolution of the conflict between determinism and free will\u2026 By \u2018free will\u2019 do you mean ability to make an utterly random decision? But what is \u2018utterly random\u2019? If something\u2019s unpredictable, it\u2019s all but indistinguishable from being random, no?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}