RE: In your opinion what causes christians to believe in Jesus
May 17, 2025 at 1:07 pm
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2025 at 1:38 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(May 17, 2025 at 12:48 pm)Alan V Wrote: I don't think we have to appeal to quantum mechanics to acknowledge free will in human brains, just to the processing of information.
This is where I take off my psychology hat and step into physics and philosophy, which I know close to nothing about. But it seems to me that people draw the wrong conclusions from quantum mechanics. People like Sam Harris want to treat the randomness of the quantum world as causal in the brain in order to argue the same thing, that whether the causes are random or not they're still not free.
But I see the randomness that exists at the quantum level, as giving us an ontological insight into the nature of the universe. A universe in which the location of electrons can be entirely indeterministic and self-generated, is also a universe in which behavior can be indeterministic and self-generated. I would even go so far as to argue this is the reason why both quantum mechanics and the behavioral sciences are governed by probability.