Thinking about the rule of totalitarianism "Everything not forbidden is compulsory." (T. H. White) which Gell-Mann ported to physics.
Science of Discworld 2 states it as the principle of societies run on tribal law.
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In the physics interpretation it leads to the sum over histories method and many worlds interpretation. What happens is a function of everything that *could* happen. So there is no room for free will at the multiverse level of quantum description. Every path must be in the sum.
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The general idea is agency closure over a perfect knowledge condition. There is no non-instrumental knowledge. Everything that is known can drive action, and all action not prohibited by law must happen.
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So there is no such thing as a pure observer view of the world. If you know something you must either act on it or be actively constrained from acting by law.
Human totalitarianism is a sort of illusory physics based on a manufactured illusion of perfect knowledge.
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