Life, the Universe and Time: Who Would Want to Live in a Predictable Universe Anyway? by C.C. Walters

Dear nancy walters,

In your shor essay you brought out another perspective of life... Then you want to live a unpredictable universe, where no one knows when some bad event may happen always in fear. It can be war or some form attack....

Dont you feel a peaceful and predictable universe is better???

By-the-way have a look at my essay A properly deciding, Computing and Predicting new theory's Philosophy in your perspective please

Best

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Dear C.C Walters

I totally agree with you. I would never like to live in a predictable universe. Must be a horror.

And yet, the laws we know are more or less deterministic. Not everything can happen in the universe. There are some boundary given by the laws of nature. It is puzzling, why there is so much unpredictability in our live despite the laws. Complexity, not knowing the initial conditions, quantum randomness, all these answers seems not really satisfactory.

So how comes so much is unpredictable having deterministic laws? Or vice versa how are laws possible, if the is so much unpredictability around?

Best

Luca

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Dear Nancy,

I enjoyed your short essay and agree with you.

I do not like the idea of a deterministic universe, and I argue in my essay "Wandering towards a 'Theory of Everything', that it is free will that makes the difference. I also discuss presentism, which you also touch on.

Good luck with your essay.

Lockie

Dear Nancy,

You wrote "Unpredictability is the essence of life.". Is there any scientific evidence? I think that more supportive evidences are needed for the support to your essay or standpoint.

Best wishes,

Yutaka

Nice essay, C.C.! I think you make an excellent point with just a few simple words: "Who would have it any other way?"

The fact that there is some balance between predictability (the Sun rises and sets every day, the seasons come and go at regular intervals, rocks don't just spontaneously turn into elephants) and unpredictability (you never quite know where life will take you next, and you can't exactly predict what other people will think or do) is precisely what makes life tolerable, in my view. Would you really want to know the future if all your future actions were predetermined, and there was nothing you could do to change them? I wouldn't. Life is better with the uncertainty of tomorrow.

In a way, I guess, it's nice that the conclusion of lots of high-minded sciency arguments matches the common sense view that we can't exactly know what tomorrow holds.

John

Dear Nancy.very elaborate essay,rated you highly for a start. Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.Does selection bias have a role in our understanding of the universe at all scales ?please read/ rate here https://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/3525.Thanks.All the best in the contest.

Nancy, A new era dawns.聽 Old questions become quaint and historical.聽 Is the whole community ready?聽 Or is physical reality too dangerous for our collective understanding at this time?聽

Dear C.C. Walters!

We think your essay is great! We chose 10 points for it.

Truly yours,

Pavel Poluian and Dmitry Lichargin,

Siberian Federal University.