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1. Alhun Aydin 10 December 2018, 19:20

   Well, this actually shows the existence of free will, rather than refuting it. Because the device acts solely according to your decisions/actions. If you decide and take the action of pushing, it flashes (it does not matter it acts retro-causally, since it acts only if you act), otherwise it does nothing. This is perfectly a causal relationship.

   Yet on the other hand, there is no such thing as free will of course, as it is easily proved by ordinary logic.

2. amorpheous 31 July 2019, 23:20

   Since this device is not real and does not actually exist, the reasoning in the story is not valid. This made up fiction based on logic is not valid because there is no factual basis for the initial premise; that the device can send information backwards in time.

3. Godless Replied to amorpheous 31 March 2020, 11:51

   You are an idiot. Do you think you can't follow a chain of reasoning through a thought experiment?

4. Mahmoud Yahya Replied to amorpheous 5 April 2021, 01:23

   it appears that the famous nature magazine has fallen into the trap of science fiction.

   i spent half an hour searching for the "predictor" device online like an idiot but it appears that it only exists in fiction.

   the weird thing is that this article is here on a science magazine instead of the science fiction category on netflix.

   and random people appears to believe that the "perfect predictor" device that predicts one second ahead really exists and is scientific because its on nature magazine ! :)

   Victory goes to pseudo-science today

   i do build complex electronic circuits and i tell you that there is no electronic circuit nor component of any sort that can receive signals of any sort or shape from its own future ! unless its a simulation of some sort or playing a prince of persia , chrono trigger or Quantum Break games

5. Godless 31 March 2020, 11:50

   https://discord.gg/WxXqvhz