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> Our behaviors are tremendously complex, but that doesn't demonstrate that we have free will. If by "free will", you do mean what I think you mean, it would b
by loup-vaillant 7y ago
> Our behaviors are tremendously complex, but that doesn't demonstrate that we have free will.
If by "free will", you do mean what I think you mean, it would be very surprising we have it. It would basically imply dualism, which I have dismissed a long time ago.
Of course our thoughts are entirely automatic. They're physical processes like any other. It would still be nice to understand their structure. I for one would be thrilled to learn how choices actually happen.
- ppm34 7y agoHow does an electron decide where to go in the dual hole experiment?
- loup-vaillant 7y agoLike the double slit experiment with a photon, or the semi-transparent mirror? Simple: it goes both ways. Then decoherence happens, the universe splits in half, and we experience being in either one of those halves. What we observe is but a glimpse of what actually happen. We don't have access to the other side (split universes don't communicate with each other, contrary to what much sci-fi material describes). That may sound weird, but the alternative (that half the amplitude is "not real", or that it "collapses" (in a way that is non-local, that is, exceeds the speed of light), is even weirder. Or you could just refuse to answer the question, and stick to "this equations mean I should observe this with those statistics".