Superdeterminism to me is the worst. It basically means the Universe looks the way it does because it just is. Like it's not because particles move, interact, based on a set of fundamental laws and that ultimately gives rise to the universe we see. No, superdeterminism means there's no rules, the universe is just made like this. Every particle is meticulously put into place to make it look as if there are physical laws, like a grand conspiracy.

It's kinda like last-Tuesdayism.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's not really related to the idea of superdeterminism. Superdeterminism literally just posits that the choice on which experiments are to be performed is determined by the same universe and its rules as the outcome of those experiments. The universe still has an initial state and a set of laws it obeys, it just does so deterministically.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

That's not it. You are just describing determinism, not superdeterminism. Superdeterminism says not only are the observations performed by you and your partner determined, but they are also determined in such a way to make quantum entanglement looks real. i.e. there's no quantum entanglement, the particles are independent, but the universe conspires to make you measure in such a way that your results appear correlated.

And if you generalize measurement to mean any interaction you have with the world, you get what I described earlier.