While a complete set of laws would amount to a complete det…

Twetch ·

While a complete set of laws would amount to a complete deterministic history of the universe, calling the universe "completely deterministic" amounts to asserting the existence of prior determinative constraints.

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Twetch ·

But this is a logical absurdity, since if these constraints were real, they would be included in reality rather than prior or external to it (by the containment principle).

Twetch ·

It follows that the universe freely determines its own constraints, the establishment of nomology and the creation of its physical (observable) content being effectively simultaneous and recursive.

Twetch ·

The incoversive distribution of this relationship is the basis of free will, by virtue of which the universe is freely created by sentient agents existing within it.