John Brodix Merryman Jr.
1 min readAug 24, 2021

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No, only that the point of determination only exists as the present. Future events haven't been computed, because the information only arrives as the present. (Presuming some external observer, omniscient omniscience, ignores that knowledge is very much a function of perspective. Excess signal reverts to noise.

The concept goes to monotheism, but logically a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. More the light shining through the film, than the images on it. Monotheism is a construct to support a monocultural society, the original globalism.)

Not only that, but to the extent prior events give way to current ones, therefore no longer exist, presuming to reconstruct them and get any clear process of causation is theoretical at best.

It's just that our minds function by extracting relatively static impressions from an dynamic reality, much of it flashing around as light, aka, really fast, our instinct is to try to frame it in static terms and patterns, rather than the processes generating them.

We think in terms of signal and noise, order and chaos, rather than energy and form.

Determinism is premised on ordered patterns, while the processes generating them are more a matter of inertia. It's just that what happens as all the action interacts can only be known by occurring.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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