(May 17, 2025 at 4:12 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(May 17, 2025 at 3:26 pm)emjay Wrote: ...and thus determined by physical laws.
You used determined, but why not just use described? It's not the role of physics to determine anything, but to describe whatever nature does. I think your perspective is putting the cart before the horse.
I'm not really sure I understand your objection. If a physical law predicts a given outcome in a given situation, and that given outcome occurs as a result of that law applied, then I have no problem in saying that that outcome was determined by the application of that law in that situation. In case you think I mean some fatalistic sense or whatever, I don't, I just mean simple cause and effect. The law describes that cause and effect, and therefore, assuming we trust its predictions, I think it's perfectly valid to say it determines a given and expected outcome.
