EDWARD LORENZ PILL: why the deterministic nature of genetics doesn't actually mean your life is predetermined

[karmacitathugmaxx]

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It’s been said many times that DNA is destiny, that the course of your life is predetermined once you pop out the womb. However, the very nature of reality makes this notion impossible. While it is true that genetics is a deterministic system, that does not mean outcomes are predetermined by any means, or that they are easily predictable by even the most powerful algorithms. To see why this is the case, we will consider two important arguments.

I. How can DNA be destiny when your DNA can change?

In 1963, Edward Lorenz published his classic paper ‘Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow’, which became the foundation for modern chaos theory. Of course, nobody here is reading that shit (I didn't), but the inspiration for the paper was observing wildly different results when he got cute and reduced the precision of some daily measurements for his weather algorithm from six digits to three. Changing the parameter values at one time by no more than 0.05% completely broke the predictive power of the weather algorithm.

Nowhere have I seen a more efficient visual demonstration of extreme parameter sensitivity than in the infamous Trackmania AI pipe racing video. Despite making the exact same moves after reaching full strength, the AI will still occasionally crash at completely unpredictable locations. When you consider the relative complexity of the human genome compared to Trackmania’s collision engine, it is easy to see how effecting a seemingly insignificant change to your DNA could drastically change the future (for better or worse ).

Of course this notion is water since everyone read the BOTB epigenetics thread; its even more watery for those who know about SNP’s (see this classic). Although most of the epigenetic variation you experience in life will be due to spawn point (outside your ability to change), there is still significant room for deliberate alteration.

For example, cruising test for long enough will literally change your genetic strength limit. Resolution of trauma will also have significant epigenetic effects due to changes in stress response.

But I know if I kept pushing this argument, there will be some hating ass nga in the comments who says ‘but the sequences of prior events effecting any epigenetic change were still predetermined, so this doesn’t actually prove shit’. So we'll move on to the second point


II. How can anything be 'predetermined' when reality is founded upon a fabric of randomness?

In 1814, that nga Laplace dreamed of the ultimate opp - an extradimensional being that could obtain the position and momentum of every particle in existence at once. If this measurement could be made, then there would be a way to predict the future with perfect accuracy.

Of course, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle means this measurement can't be made, and so the ultimate opp cannot exist. The de Broglie wavelength framework relates the uncertainty in the position and momentum of any collection of particles (assuming they are in quantum coherence). Of course, any aggregated wave behaviour of physical structures above the micrometer scale will be imperceptible because that level of aggregation results in quantum decoherence. But neural networks will always contain some small scale structures which are able to attain quantum coherence (see one theory courtesy of OG Roger Penrose).

Ngas can say that completely ‘free will’ does not exist because the range of choices available to you at any given moment is reliant on far too many factors outside your influence; there will always be options you cannot perceive. Some NPC ass ngas may truly not have any free will because they lack the metacognitive ability to simulate a range of choices and are operating off a script (even if that script incorporates some random variables). But if you are deliberating a range of choices, the neural pathways which correspond to executing each option are forming a superposition; by making a final decision, you are personally shaping your slice of reality.

When you consider every factor behind every decision you ever made, there’s a certainty that processes underpinned by RNG (like the tiktok algorithm LMAO) had significantly influenced a non-zero percentage of those decisions. When you then recall the high level of potential outcome impact from slightly altering decisions (as seen in part 1), you may conclude there is no way that life is predetermined.

If you truly worry about being a slave to biological determinism after allat yapping, you can try letting a quantum coin make like 20 of your decisions. Then you will be basically guaranteed to see a future that is different from the one the universe and your DNA ‘decided for you’ at birth.

\OUTRO

I'm aware that general life outcomes are still highly predictable provided your original DNA and your spawn point. But actually dedicating yourself to the grind gives you the best chance of beating the prediction. I previously wrote a thread on breaking mental limits; if a mental process is stopping you from becoming dedicated, you can almost certainly find a way to break that limiter and change the future. The world is yours o algo @illusion

 

[Blasian-K]

4500 special post, idk why i bother formatting these, aint nobody ever reads ts

It’s been said many times that DNA is destiny, that the course of your life is predetermined once you pop out the womb. However, the very nature of reality makes this notion impossible. While it is true that genetics is a deterministic system, that does not mean outcomes are predetermined by any means, or that they are easily predictable by even the most powerful algorithms. To see why this is the case, we will consider two important arguments.

I. How can DNA be destiny when your DNA can change?

In 1963, Edward Lorenz published his classic paper ‘Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow’, which became the foundation for modern chaos theory. Of course, nobody here is reading that shit (I didn't), but the inspiration for the paper was observing wildly different results when he got cute and reduced the precision of some daily measurements for his weather algorithm from six digits to three. Changing the parameter values at one time by no more than 0.05% completely broke the predictive power of the weather algorithm.

Nowhere have I seen a more efficient visual demonstration of extreme parameter sensitivity than in the infamous Trackmania AI pipe racing video. Despite making the exact same moves after reaching full strength, the AI will still occasionally crash at completely unpredictable locations. When you consider the relative complexity of the human genome compared to Trackmania’s collision engine, it is easy to see how effecting a seemingly insignificant change to your DNA could drastically change the future (for better or worse ).

Of course this notion is water since everyone read the BOTB epigenetics thread; its even more watery for those who know about SNP’s (see this classic). Although most of the epigenetic variation you experience in life will be due to spawn point (outside your ability to change), there is still significant room for deliberate alteration.

For example, cruising test for long enough will literally change your genetic strength limit. Resolution of trauma will also have significant epigenetic effects due to changes in stress response.

But I know if I kept pushing this argument, there will be some hating ass nga in the comments who says ‘but the sequences of prior events effecting any epigenetic change were still predetermined, so this doesn’t actually prove shit’. So we'll move on to the second point


II. How can anything be 'predetermined' when reality is founded upon a fabric of randomness?

In 1814, that nga Laplace dreamed of the ultimate opp - an extradimensional being that could obtain the position and momentum of every particle in existence at once. If this measurement could be made, then there would be a way to predict the future with perfect accuracy.

Of course, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle means this measurement can't be made, and so the ultimate opp cannot exist. The de Broglie wavelength framework relates the uncertainty in the position and momentum of any collection of particles (assuming they are in quantum coherence). Of course, any aggregated wave behaviour of physical structures above the micrometer scale will be imperceptible because that level of aggregation results in quantum decoherence. But neural networks will always contain some small scale structures which are able to attain quantum coherence (see one theory courtesy of OG Roger Penrose).

Ngas can say that completely ‘free will’ does not exist because the range of choices available to you at any given moment is reliant on far too many factors outside your influence; there will always be options you cannot perceive. Some NPC ass ngas may truly not have any free will because they lack the metacognitive ability to simulate a range of choices and are operating off a script (even if that script incorporates some random variables). But if you are deliberating a range of choices, the neural pathways which correspond to executing each option are forming a superposition; by making a final decision, you are personally shaping your slice of reality.

When you consider every factor behind every decision you ever made, there’s a certainty that processes underpinned by RNG (like the tiktok algorithm LMAO) had significantly influenced a non-zero percentage of those decisions. When you then recall the high level of potential outcome impact from slightly altering decisions (as seen in part 1), you may conclude there is no way that life is predetermined.

If you truly worry about being a slave to biological determinism after allat yapping, you can try letting a quantum coin make like 20 of your decisions. Then you will be basically guaranteed to see a future that is different from the one the universe and your DNA ‘decided for you’ at birth.

\OUTRO

I'm aware that general life outcomes are still highly predictable provided your original DNA and your spawn point. But actually dedicating yourself to the grind gives you the best chance of beating the prediction. I previously wrote a thread on breaking mental limits; if a mental process is stopping you from becoming dedicated, you can almost certainly find a way to break that limiter and change the future. The world is yours o algo @illusion

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