Randomness, Immortality and super power

As humans how free we are ? sometimes we feel like we are in control of the world and sometimes we just feel like we are the victim of some very complicated processes. As a consolation to our failure to understand, we label all undesirable events happening to us as random and hence we have no control over them. In the world there are processes we can explain and others we cannot. The building blocks of the world are perfectly designed processes interacting with each other and producing all sorts of events. In front of me there is a transparent window through which I can see a tree moving in all directions due to the wind. If we ask a man lambda to describe this movement his answer will be ‘Random movement’ simply because after one or two minutes of staring at the tree he wasn’t able to recognize any pattern with which he is familiar. The question here is, how can we predict this tree’s movement ? In other words what are the key inputs governing this movement? As a quick and first level input we consider the wind, but the idea here is to get relevant inputs because somehow the random movement of the tree is due to the random flow of wind and here, we are trying to predict a random movement using another random one. Given the geometry of the tree if we suppose the wind’s flow is known (random or not we don’t care) we will be able to predict exactly the tree’s movement. The tree here is just like a deterministic processor transforming a flow of the air into a movement of the tree, the transformation is governed by geometrical characteristics of the tree and some laws of physics. From the same perspective, the wind flow is an output of another deterministic processor in which, given an air pressure force and the characteristics of air molecules and another law of physics we can accurately predict the wind flow. Again, the air pressure can be resulted from every moving object on earth. So far if we have as input all moving objects on earth and some physics laws, we can predict the movement of the tree in front of me. The difficulty we will encounter trying to get all moving objects on earth is the same if we try to get laws governing the distribution of prime numbers, we, as humans, are limited in terms of lifespan and computational power but this doesn’t prevent us from discovering time independent rules governing the world as well as inventing computers with powerful computational capacities. But what motivates us to do so ? I think that there is profoundly inside us a desire for immortality and super power.