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• @Epp@lemmus.org 2026-10-22 18:22

  I very much do. It means that given the same inputs to a system, you can expect the same output. I believe that to be one hundred percent the incontrovertible reality of life. The problem is it is not a testable theory, because the input includes the state of the system prior the new input. You can never recover that information, so there is no way to put it through and see if you will get that same output. Spacetime coordinates and the position of the cosmos themselves are all variables in this deterministic function, but it’s still deterministic.

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• @moonshine69@lemmy.nz 2026-10-22 09:26

  A computer algorithm can absolutely be non deterministic, pick your language and run random.rand() There is a whole class of such algorithms en.wikipedia.org/…/Nondeterministic_Turing_machin… But I don’t see how it makes a difference, even deterministic algorithms can produce infinite complexity, eg linear neural networks are proven to be able to compute any computable function, or the Mandelbrot set which is produced from a single recurrent statement but encodes a space of infinite complexity Maybe your point is to say that a brain is performing a non computable function…but since your brain is computing that function…is that a counter example?

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