Pi and Free Will
Pi day (3/14) was 10 days ago, and my blog post is late. Modern scientists tell us, however, that there is no such thing as free will, and that my lateness was pre-determined, unavoidable, and thus arguably, "not my fault." The "no free will" thought experiment goes as follows: imagine we are all physical systems where every interaction can be known and measured. Given enough data and computational ability, identifying cause and calculating effect delivers predictable outcomes with 100% accuracy. If we accept determinism, that our lives from birth to death have already been set, where does our moral responsibility go? Why try at all? The Atlantic wrestles with these questions in There's No Such Thing as Free Will (But we're better off believing in it anyway) . The sub-heading gives it away, indicating that scientists have publicly walked back their argument, "Ha ha, we were just trolling all of you," but privately still think we have