RE: Oh no not another free will thread.
April 24, 2018 at 4:22 pm
(This post was last modified: April 24, 2018 at 4:23 pm by henryp.)
Getting back into it, instead of free will, which is already complicated because it's hard to define and many already question whether it exists or not.
How about we do this same problem with quantum randomness?
It is a non-causal event. Determinism can't be used to predict whether you'll get result 1 or result 2.
Larry somehow gains knowledge of the future and knows that the event ends up having result 2. But Larry still doesn't know why the event will end up having a result of 2.
Larry's knowledge doesn't provide a cause, meaning the result is still non-causal, meaning it was the product of randomness.
How about we do this same problem with quantum randomness?
It is a non-causal event. Determinism can't be used to predict whether you'll get result 1 or result 2.
Larry somehow gains knowledge of the future and knows that the event ends up having result 2. But Larry still doesn't know why the event will end up having a result of 2.
Larry's knowledge doesn't provide a cause, meaning the result is still non-causal, meaning it was the product of randomness.
