The Spectrum of Determinism Positions: from Free Will to Determinism to Eternalism with Control Aspects

Michael Hoffman, 4:40 a.m. August 23, 2025

Contents:

links work on desktop Edge/Chrome:

• Posting Convention for Mobile: Potentials of a Rough Draft Flow (non hidden)
• Intro
• integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking – ie, not a zero-sum game between either possibilism-thinking wins & eternalism-thinking loses “or” eternalism-thinking wins &
• Psychedelic RenaissanceTM — p r Psychedelic RenaissanceTM
• The List of Spectrum Positions
• Degree of Grasping Eternalism 4D block spacetime by Minkowski vs Einstein (weak)
• absolute four-dimensional spacetime
• u suffix of a keyboard shortcut includes url of my page & of book or article
• recent awesome convention for citation keyboard shortcuts: fl## — author initials + year (+ url!! fl##u )
• move out: Date of Main article 2006 & 2007
• Inventor of the Acronym: Michael Hoffman April 1987
• allcaps keyboard shortcut feature is on desktop only
• Concept of “explanatory model”
• PAUL THAGARD PAGE
• who invented the acronym when? history: IBM even the damn name of the co is an acro
• its not as if on day 1: Oct 26 1985 i thought “Im gonna create/ develop the Egodeath theory”

Intro

absolute four-dimensional spacetime

Cube w worldline snake from The Entheogen Theory of Religion and Ego Death (Hoffman, 2007 main article) http://egodeath.com/EntheogenTheoryOfReligion.htm & https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/the-entheogen-theory-of-religion-and-ego-death-2006-main-article/

Posting Convention for Mobile: Potentials of a Rough Draft Flow (non hidden)

limitation of Mobile app for WordPress called Jetpack:

sluggish with long pages.

be super careful to sync w Desktop browser edits drafts, else RISK LOSING CONTENT.

when i know i need to create a page on a good idea for a topic , get started: post it as outline sketch and not hidden. especially mobile.

this site is leading edge rough idea development then some pages reach polished state – including mobile experimental tech.

this post is presently a mow-bile rough starter outline.

i dont like saving a hidden draft of a post, it gets lost and hard to track; it is easier for me to post as draft.

joke: as a privilege for followers who pay $$$ they get to see early draft. ( = 💥🗑️ )

Intro

superdeterminism falsely claims to be more radical than determinism, but falls short of eternalism which falls short of eternalism with control ramif that The Dillema of Determinism (William James, 1897) objected to.

James, it is not – as i recently realized (wrmspirit emails) – a zero sum game

integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking – ie, not a zero-sum game between either possibilism-thinking wins & eternalism-thinking loses “or” eternalism-thinking wins &

Psychedelic RenaissanceTM — p r Psychedelic RenaissanceTM

todo: review all keyboard shortcut because = review all key concepts.

k c

key concept

keyboard shortcut = acronym (invented by me 4/87 for dadt-path idea development enabling figure out enlightenment ego transcendence in just 1987/04 to 1988/01/11 years ) = key concept

keyboard shortcut , acro, key concept

same thing – super powerful PROVED by how dast fast i went from reading the Way of Zen by Alan Watts like 4/87, to breakthru jan 88.

eternalism 4D block spacetime + ego dies from no-free-will + loose cognition / psychedelics

• Minkowski keyboard shortcut absolute four- dim s

absolute four-dimensional spacetime

afds

absolute four-dimensional spacetime 🎉

a cool acronym to type on keyboard left fingers: A F D S — ez

absolute four-dimensional spacetime

absolute four-dimensional spacetime

per Petkov intro of Minkowski booki

Minkowski book

I found the words eternalism & superdeterminism (vs determinism ) on the day after i rearranged the separated Summary to become the inline Intro, on Sep 2007 main article, & rearranged phrases to not have nested sentences (to enable voice reading recording of article).

todo: gather past week of writeups

yesterday & past two days, wrote: …

copied emails to idea development p 30 or 31

eternalism is as far beyond determinism as determinism is beyond freewill !

search site: spectrum of determinism recent good list

find superdeterminism

The List of Spectrum Positions

• freewill
• determinism
• superdeterminism
• emily adlam version of superdeterminism wgat WHAT IS HER KEY TERM?, see my adlam page. & SEE V1 of this list recently by finf dFind in site: dt superdeterminism
• eternalism per Snodfart Ency Phil – phil o time – omits ANY consid of control ramif
• proper eternalism (with Control aspects) which Wm James 1897 railed against while pretending to rebut determinism

2 definitions of eternalism : without Control considerations, with

Degree of Grasping Eternalism 4D block spacetime by Minkowski vs Einstein (weak)

Einstein initially rejected or disrespected Minkowski s 4D block spacetime – Petkov book’s intro phrase:

absolute four-dimensional spacetime

“absolute four-dimensional spacetime”.

“absolute”, because everyone f’d up by the word ‘relativity’ connotations.

relativity is OF SIMULTANEITY, but still, everything is a frozen spacetime block per Minkowski / Ein.

posted 6 mo ago about this, Petkov page/ Minkowski page: 4D Spacetime Mysticism

petkov book says Minkowski grokked the full mind-blowing ramifs of 4D block spacetime unlike Einstein

stupid idiot Minkowski, his 1908 draft initially said, appropriately,

OMFG MIND BLOWN!! A BFD! THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING 😵🤯– then he struck that deaft draft clarification!

might have photo of that page at WordPress gallery here

he really screwed himself– FATAL MISTAKE. failure to self promote, so now everyone thinks Einstein both thought of 4D block spacetime and grokked it.

No one but Minkowski gradped ramif of eternalism 4D block spacetime – but James 1897 did and so h–

in 1897 Hames James tripped on nitrous and discovered 4D block spacetime , then rejected it when he returned to ordinary state — this is early example of my male female two headed final result: integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking

against Wm Em James, do not reject eternalism and only affirm mental model 1.

afainst advaita, do not reject possibilism and only affirm mental model 2.

keyboard shortcuts:

William James

wj

The Dillema of Determinism (William James, 1897)

wj97

todo:

keyboard shortcut w the url of my page The Dillema of Determinism (William James, 1897)

The Dillema of Determinism (William James, 1897) url of my page & url of the pdf

wj97u

u suffix of a keyboard shortcut includes url of my page & of book or article

recent awesome convention for citation keyboard shortcuts: fl## — author initials + year (+ url!! fl##u )

demos:

m h 0 7

The Entheogen Theory of Religion and Ego Death (Hoffman, 2007 main article) http://egodeath.com/EntheogenTheoryOfReligion.htm & https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/the-entheogen-theory-of-religion-and-ego-death-2006-main-article/

Demo of url book: EXTREMELY USEFUL:

w h 2 2

Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity (Wouter Hanegraaff, 2022) https://egodeaththeory.org/2022/07/14/hermetic-spirituality-and-the-historical-imagination-altered-states-of-knowledge-in-late-antiquity-hanegraaff/ & https://www.amazon.com/Hermetic-Spirituality-Historical-Imagination-Knowledge/dp/1009123068/

new convention: u suffix – keyboard shortcut expansion tgat includes 2 urls:

• url of my page
• url of bk or article

the definition of determinism is rigid and not re definable as i wrongly attempted in 2007 main article

move out: Date of Main article 2006 & 2007: Fully Written 2006; Fixed Layout 2007

hell you could even research cybtrans.com at Archive.org in 2006 Sep. to see the nested senences and lack of Intro/Summary section.

todo: [heading from page “1987 notebooks”: History of Finalizing Article from Sep 2006 to Sep 20] – move present section to there? yes def. a good place to gather same info, even if not ideal

verdict: article written 2006; layout fixed 2007 to

• bring the “Summary” section from the separate, home page of Egodeath.com, into the article inline as the Intro section (like part 0 then parts 1-4);
• and to break out the nested sentences (discovered during recording reading aloud the article).
• [The day after I finalized the article in Sep. 2007, I discovered & posted in Egodeath Yahoo Group about the words ‘eternalism’ and ‘superdeterminism’; should’ve changed ‘determinism’ to ‘eternalism’ in the article.]

Every phrase of the final article was written in 2006, not quite brought together properly inline, and not as readable due to long-because-nested sentences.

image photo 2006 draft p 1 toc missing Intro summary

by conventional standards, 2006 was merely a draft , because the Intro (called Summary, ) was outside the article as :

Summary of that article over there in other webpage

not :

inline as “Intro” in article’s webpage

(also, nested sentences not readable aloud) in main webpage of article in 2006

the wording choice is same in 2006 2007 but LOCATION of sections or phrases changed

image p 1 from recent 1987 Notebk post

1. wrote body 2006 4 main sections
2. wrote Summary of article on separate, home page 2006
3. 2007 moved Summary from home page to start of article
4. 2007 fixed nested sentences. = the real, publish ready article BUT:
5. [The next day (per Egodeath Yahoo Group posts): discovered and posted for the first time the words eternalism and super determinism; should’ve changed ‘determinism’ to ‘eternalism’ in the article.]

My First Ever Writing/Posting the word ‘eternalism’: Sep. 12, 2007

Subject: Block universe, Four dimensionalism, Eternalism, B-Theory, Unrealit[ity of time]
https://egodeathyahoogroup.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-96/#message4897

Superdeterminism is weak compared to eternalism which is weak compared to [eternalism incl control ramifications that The Dillema of Determinism (William James, 1897) objected to after etm was revealed on Nitrous, and Minkowski said OMFG 4D block spacetime changes everything!!🤯 — like recent video by Emily Adlam. url my page

The All-At-Once Universe (Emily Adlam)

• The “All At Once” Universe Shatters Our View of Time (Emily Adlam)
• Psychedelic 4D-Spacetime Block-Universe Mysticism
• The Dilemma of Determinism (James, 1897) Is Against Eternalism, Not Causal-Chain Determinism

keyboard shortcut

superdeterminism

s d t m

superdeterminism 🎉

BUT, neither Emily nor Minkowski nor James fully grasped, … James — BECAUSE he had a psychedelic, NITROUS, — grasped more than Minkowski or Adlam, the CONTROL aspects of eternalism

Adlam superdeterminism …. is stronger than regular superdeterminism – thus separe list items. on the spectrum list.

keyboard shortcut ie concept-label — making a keyboard shortcut acro is a big deal, it means crafting casting a new concept.

a keyboard shortcut = a super concept. april 1987 technique breakthrough : I invented the acronym. 👉😑

Inventor of the Acronym: Michael Hoffman April 1987

when my father died tgat month i had a huge breakthru in idea development technique and started thinking in terms of not wroking on myself control repair via blank books but instead big empty ruled binder sheets to develop a theory model; prototype project to set iut out intentionally to create an exmd em e

keyboard shortcut

explanatory model

exm

explanatory model 🎉

bad: keyboard shortcut thats part of english words eg : em

would not work

1987 binder sheete and word procesdor text file format:

absolute four-dimensional spacetime [AFDS]

allcaps keyboard shortcut feature is on desktop only

special feature of this software (no; desktop browser only, not mobile) : allcaps expansion is avail IF acro is lowercase:

absolute four-dimensional spacetime

absolute four-dimensional spacetime

didnt work. test:

keyboard shortcut

not work.

end of allcaps note

Concept of “explanatory model”

idea of explanatory model is per 350$ book of on the Science of Model-Based & Paul Thagard (cited there i think)

keyboard shortcut

Paul Thagard Conceptual Revolutions my url if any?? do i have page? TODO

PAUL THAGARD PAGE

• Tree
• Scholarly Fail-Quotes Hall of Shame
• Conceptual Revolutions (Thagard)
• Qualifications to Make

who invented the acronym when? history: IBM even the damn name of the co is an acro

1987 notation:

foo bar [FB]

hand writing big init cap + all caps hand writing P205

FOO BAR [FB]

is how figured out ego transcendence by interrogating the Way of Zen by Alan Watts from 1987/04 to 1988/01 SHyT THATS HOW FAST I FIGURED OUT ego transcendence per STEM standards by using acro to speed thinking & forge key concept concept-labels as acronyms.

forge a new term + acro = powerful. started apr 87 doing that.

No longer sent’s in small, tightly bound blank books,

5 threw away in 4/87.

from 1985/10 thru 1987/03 , wrote 5 blank books in the effort to repair my dysfunctional cross-time control

engr class notes photo 1986 here shows my pre-theory-construction phase

When did i start CONSCIOUSLY developing the Egodeath theory ?

its not as if on day 1: Oct 26 1985 i thought “Im gonna create/ develop the Egodeath theory”

before i had started consciously developing theory.

1. no acros, blank books, not building a theory. 1985/10
2. no acros, figure out ego transcendence not because that was my goal, but, to repair / analyze dysfunctional cross-time control i should take 2 weeks to first per STEM standards figure out ego transcendence. started like 06/86
3. 04/87 started acros = forging, constructing key concepts, name an acro for the key concept – super powerful. and, started intentionally thinking in terms of creating an explanatory model of nctc non dysfunctional cross-time control to write a book for everyone one; self help done right, incorping loose cognition lessons.

loose cognition

better notation tho for mobile:

foo bar

f b

i might have photo here of when i invented the acronym.

google:

when was the acronym invented? did Michael Hoffman invent the acronym, in 4/87?

AI response:

NO. The acronym was invented in -1987 B C by Joe Acronym, thats where the word comes from.

(stupid idiot)

see yesterday post 1987 Notebooks photo of artic printout missing Intro section just 4 main sections

metaphor

determinism

dissociation (psychedelics loose cognition )

fully tracked in article’s Subject thread at Egodeath Yahoo Group archive

make sure Cyberdisciple know my dates of 2006 2007 main article intro added 2007 , sentences de-nested & shortened for read aloud ability voice recording 2007

Egodeath Yahoo Group shows Sep 2007 day i finalized main article, the following day i first posted the word eternalism. Find that word at Egodeath Yahoo Group – Max Freakout Archive