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Shop: Kraken Kratom Red Vein Kratom   Unfolding Nature Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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Re: A scientifically informed opinion on why free will doesn't exist. [Re: Asante] * 2
    #28631585 - 01/22/24 11:16 PM (5 days, 14 hours ago)

Thing is though, quantum mechanics.

The positions of electrons while in orbit around a nucleus are random, not deterministic. This is what Einstein had an objection to, the famous "God doesn't play dice" quote. Before the measurement of their position, there are only probabilities for where electrons will be, and these probabilities are inherently not deterministic.

Schrödinger's cat is based on the same thing at a larger scale: nuclear decay is random, not deterministic. It is true that many things in the universe are deterministic, but other things are based on probability. The universe has both.

We'd need to understand a lot more about the nature of consciousness and the brain in order to say anything conclusive about free will, but at the very least, it may not be deterministic. It could be random based on a set of probabilities.

And, in any case, it depends on how you define free will.


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