If you assume away free will, the problem loses meaning. What is that “choice” between one and two boxes that you are supposed to make? You don’t make any choices.
Indeed. You experience results of the progression of states of the universe. It feels like you’re making a choice, but that’s illusory. Not so much “assume away” free will, but “dissolve the concept” and recognize that it’s meaningless.
Or, at least that’s the case in a universe where Omega can perfectly (or even near-perfecty) predict your “choices”—choice is meaningless if it’s that predictable. It’s not actually proven that this is possible, or that our universe (including consciousness) works that way.
I don’t know how else it would work. But I also don’t know how it could work in the first place, so that doesn’t tell us much. Omega doesn’t (as far as I know) actually exist, so “it doesn’t work at all” is a justifiable answer as well.
There’s only so much you can learn about the actual universe from thought experiments.
If you assume away free will, the problem loses meaning. What is that “choice” between one and two boxes that you are supposed to make? You don’t make any choices.
Indeed. You experience results of the progression of states of the universe. It feels like you’re making a choice, but that’s illusory. Not so much “assume away” free will, but “dissolve the concept” and recognize that it’s meaningless.
Or, at least that’s the case in a universe where Omega can perfectly (or even near-perfecty) predict your “choices”—choice is meaningless if it’s that predictable. It’s not actually proven that this is possible, or that our universe (including consciousness) works that way.
How else would it work? Where is the decision going to come from that Omega can’t see?
I don’t know how else it would work. But I also don’t know how it could work in the first place, so that doesn’t tell us much. Omega doesn’t (as far as I know) actually exist, so “it doesn’t work at all” is a justifiable answer as well.
There’s only so much you can learn about the actual universe from thought experiments.