Leontiskos wrote: ↑June 4th, 2023, 1:42 pm If determinism is true then our perception of things like representation, rationality, truth, and experimentation is an illusion.As you know well by now, I see "illusion" as the wrong word. The randomness of dice is not so much an illusion, more a valid working approximation, a model. I'd reserve the term "illusion" for situations where there is a real gain in discarding the illusion for the reality.
The absurdity of determinism is rather significant.Yes, believing in a mechanism of determination that is accessible to us is indeed absurd.
Suppose there are two people in a room. Give Alfie access to enough ability to measure the current state of the universe locally and enough computing power to predict the short-term future from that, and he can know what Bruno is going to say 10 seconds before he says it. Enough time for Alfie to tell Bruno what Bruno is going to say. But common experience is enough to tell us that Bruno is capable of resolving to say something different...
On the other hand, believing in a mechanism of determination that is inaccessible is a dead-end. It goes nowhere, nothing follows from it. It belongs with the idea that everything is a dream in the mind of God, or a program running in the Matrix.
In that case, belief in determinism is not so much absurd, just pointless.