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Spin is one of those properties physicists can’t predict in advance
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“If the atoms never swerve so as to originate some new movement that will snap the bonds of fate, the everlasting sequence of cause and effect—what is the source of the free will possessed by living things throughout the earth?”—Titus Lucretius Carus, Roman philosopher and poet, 99–55 BC.
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Human free will might seem like the squishiest of philosophical subjects, way beyond the realm of mathematical demonstration. But two highly regarded
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claim to have proven that if humans have even the tiniest amount of free will, then atoms themselves must also behave unpredictably.
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That’s certainly what we ordinarily assume in life. We don’t imagine, say, that a fence turned white just because we looked at it — we figure it was white all along.
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17 Aug 08
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amplify mobileive up determinism, or give up free will. Even the tiniest bit of free will.
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if humans have even the tiniest amount of free will, then atoms themselves must also behave unpredictably
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The best anyone can hope to do, quantum theory says, is predict the probability that a particle will behave in a certain way.
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John Conway and Simon Kochen
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traditional interpretations of quantum mechanics embrace unpredictability already. The best anyone can hope to do, quantum theory says, is predict the probability that a particle will behave in a certain way.
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“God does not play dice.”
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David Bohm, who argued in the 1950s that the behavior of subatomic particles is entirely determined by “hidden variables” that cannot be observed.
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Give up determinism, or give up free will. Even the tiniest bit of free will.
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1-0-1 rule
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“We can really prove that there’s no algorithm, no way that the particle can give an answer that is unique and can be specified ahead of time,”
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particle’s spin doesn’t exist until it’s measured.
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lordkilgarholbach escape?
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David Feld"If we have free will, so do subatomic particles, mathematicians claim to prove."
physics science freewill religion philosophy metaphysics quantumtheory
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