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I don't think the deterministic Newtonian world has any room for free will. But does the randomness in quantum mechanics allow for it? Googling "quantum mechani

• retrac 5y ago
  The debate along that line predates both Newtonian and quantum mechanics. The ancient Epicurian atomist philosophy seems, at first glance, to postulate a fully deterministic universe like the simple interpretation of Newtonian mechanics does, and so would preclude free will. The solution was a randomness in the motions of atoms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_rerum_natura#The_swerve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_rerum_natura#The_swerve
• SigmundA 5y ago
  In most games there is a RNG at the bottom that makes it interesting, the dice roll. I imagine our universe the same way, even if it is deterministic the origin (big bang) was probably based on some kind of random seed to setup the initial state like a procedural game, either that or its determinism all the way down, but what does that mean, what gave everything its current configuration? Of course you can start talking about god, but without some outside entropy we are back to no free will, if god is the source of entropy then there is no choice no free will only his will, if he is not the source where does it come from?
  • Zuider 5y ago
    If the initial singularity already contains everything that unfolds from its expansion so it emerges deterministically, then: 1) How can a zero dimensional object hold any information? 2) Does every singularity hold the same information? Would the works of say, Justin Bieber, necessarily emerge from the mathematical definition of a singularity so that every universe must contain them?