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I wonder if anyone here would be so kind as to explain Schrodinger's argument. I'm not grasping it. Is he making a fundamental point about the degrees of freedo

I wonder if anyone here would be so kind as to explain Schrodinger's argument. I'm not grasping it. Is he making a fundamental point about the degrees of freedom an electron can have, delimiting ideas about how a brain can process thought with the help of self-willed electrons? Or is it confined to whether an electron itself can have thought. What point is he making in the debate about whether humans are automata? I'll read it again, but it's subtle and I might not understand quantum mechanics sufficiently to understand it.

Tomminn 8y ago
He's saying that just because the movements of particles are not predictable doesn't mean you all of a sudden get to claim "free will"-- the ability to somehow impose an arbitrary desire in the chain of causality between your sense experiences and your actions. In order for you to have "free will" in this classical sense, you'd have to control the "slit" the electrons "swerve" through. But you don't. They just act randomly. They're not the things that impose your will. Your will is still an illusion.