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It's being discussed in another thread but I really think clarification is in place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism
I've known about Bells quote for years but I never got what his point was.
Why the need for a "super" inclusion to postulate that human beings are subject to determinism just like everything else? I would presume that this was the prevailing scientific wisdom among physicists ever since Newtonian Mechanics. Why did Bell feel the need to invent a new term that seems superflous. He's just describing determinism.
I'm fairly well-read in philosophy of science and I can't recall the term superdeterminism ever being used, since it merely describes determinism applying to everything, and the conventional view of determinism is that it does apply to everything, and certainly human behavior.
If I somehow misunderstood Bells use of it, feel free to expand on what he meant and how it differs from regular determinism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism
I've known about Bells quote for years but I never got what his point was.
Why the need for a "super" inclusion to postulate that human beings are subject to determinism just like everything else? I would presume that this was the prevailing scientific wisdom among physicists ever since Newtonian Mechanics. Why did Bell feel the need to invent a new term that seems superflous. He's just describing determinism.
I'm fairly well-read in philosophy of science and I can't recall the term superdeterminism ever being used, since it merely describes determinism applying to everything, and the conventional view of determinism is that it does apply to everything, and certainly human behavior.
If I somehow misunderstood Bells use of it, feel free to expand on what he meant and how it differs from regular determinism