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how does basic physics tells us there is no free will? That is generally an argument about hard determinism which could be argued is invalidated by The Heisenbe
by DtnB 8y ago
how does basic physics tells us there is no free will? That is generally an argument about hard determinism which could be argued is invalidated by The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
- YjSe2GMQ 8y agoRandomness does not yield freedom. A robot connected to a truly random source (like a decaying radioactive substance) is no more free than a fully deterministic x86 chip.
- DtnB 8y agono but the fact that something is not deterministic would preclude the idea that 'basic physics says there is no free will'
- YjSe2GMQ 8y agoSorry but that is exactly what I meant: the world is a) either deterministic or b) partially deterministic and partially random (for example quantum), and in either of these cases there's no way you can construct free will agents. Arguably the b) version is not simple physics, but that's what I meant.