Why is space three-dimensional, and not two-dimensional, or four- or five- or more-dimensional? I mean the extended space dimensions, not the micro dimensions. Why does it have a certain number of dimensions at all?
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Free Will: The Definition
What is Free Will?
It’s not hard from a verbal / spiritual / humanistic perspective to define free will… it’s the ability to decide what you think, free (at least partly) from outside influences such as other people, gods, or physics.
Free Will and the Nature of Time
There is only one point in time, and everything is always there.
The basis for this is physics, but it impacts philosophy, religion, and everyday life, including our understanding of free will.
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Is the Earth – could a planet with living things be – a living thing?
Yes – it might not be real good at it, but close enough.
That’s at the viable living thing level, not yet considering whether it can expand into its environment or reproduce.
Ability to reproduce makes it a competitive living thing. Other living things are gonna develop the ability to reproduce, so you better too if you’re going to survive.
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How the Universe Does It
How does the universe decide what’s going to happen next? Basically it’s running a massively parallel, real-time, infinite-precision numerical simulation.
Time
There is only the present moment. This isn’t philosophical mumbo-jumbo, I mean physically, time is a single point.
The Paradox of Sports and Free Will
The paradox of sports
The paradox of sports is this: you need to believe you have a 100% chance of winning in order to have a 50% chance of winning. If you don’t believe in your heart that you’re going to win – not that it’s automatic, but that you have the right combination of talent, practice and divine favor – then you have little chance of winning.
Does Free Will Exist?
According to classical physics, everything is causal. Though classical physics always allowed that spirituality, and possibly some aspect of life, were outside the realm of physics. To the extent those were part of thing, it was pretty much assumed that people had free will. That we could make decisions independent of physics, which was causal, or spiritual forces like good and evil, which were driven by supernatural beings or forces. Sure we were influenced by them, yet we had the ability to make free will decisions, and a thing called free will existed.
Very Universe 