(July 1, 2013 at 9:06 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Not only is determinism unproven, it is unprovable. You must prove that given a particular state of the universe at time t, there is only one possible outcome for time t+1.
Show me the evidence that "things could not have gone differently than they have." You cannot. What you have is not a scientific conclusion, but a philosophical assumption made on the basis that it accords with what we are used to thinking about in science.
Really, the only relevant issue here is whether or not the universe is sufficiently non-deterministic to allow us to have real free will. The answer to that question appears to be no. The only non-deterministic processes we've detected are at the quantum level, far below anything approaching our consciousness, and even if those drove consciousness, we'd have random will, not free will.
