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EtherealMachinery

Ethereal Machinery is a phrase that LionKimbro introduced in the FreeWillAndDeterminism discussion.

There are a people who believe that we have what they call “free will,” and insist that free will is the exercise of a non-material agency that is non-derivative from material history.

This introduces an interesting question: “Is there non-material history?”

Spiritual Worlds

This leads to the concept of “Ethereal Machinery.” The word “ethereal” is used here to denote spiritual worlds, fairy lands, worlds made of thought (without material substrate,) cloud castles, and so on: non-material. Something that you might find in a planear hierarchy, or a spiritual cosmology with bubbles connected by fibers, astral dimensions, silver cords, and so on.

If these worlds operate by some causality, no matter how strange it may be to us, it would still be a causality. Even if the one rule were, “No moment shall be the same as the prior,” there is still the discernible order that we do not see moments that are identical. Any further order on top of that is icing on the cake.

This order is called “Ethereal Machinery.” It is non-material, but it is still based in histories and causalities.

Inner Life of the Soul

If a person makes a decision, let’s suppose that it is not the material world that is the basis behind that decision.

What is the decision based on?

Regardless, all of this, is still Ethereal Machinery, and suggests determinism.

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Discussion

This reminds me of the notion of “source of entropy”, or Wikipedia:Hardware random number generator. Since, from the point of view of algorithms, computers by definition are deterministic, then when you need some truly random numbers, you must use an external source which is not described (and not describable) in terms of algorithms. This is a hack to get out of too strong assumptions, to allow something that cannot be described by our current methodology.

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