RE: Do you believe in free will?
March 8, 2012 at 8:57 am
(This post was last modified: March 8, 2012 at 9:16 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Quantum- anything does not have a noticeable effect on dice, they're a bit too large. By "a bit", I mean by many orders of magnitude, of course. The same goes for our "free will" generating apparatus. You know I'm actually very frustrated with all the quantum this and thats being bandied about in service of randomness. You know how we know about quantum anything? By leveraging deterministic processes and creating "probability fields". Even the "quantum" can be predicted to a relative degree of success. Quantum never means what anyone seems to think it means. Similarly, by the time something reaches a size that were likely to begin having a discussion about it as a part of our experience it has long left the domain of the quantum and entered the very humdrum world of things that seem to behave in accordance with what we have roughly coined "laws", since we can find no exceptions. This again seems to have something to do with probability. As you approach ever increasing "sizes" your choices become more and more limited, at a point what you are, where you are, and when you are, becomes something that may as well be etched into stone, because the probability that you will or even could (the very next moment) become something else, somewhere else, some-when else drops to nil. The best way to phrase this, with regards to quantum anything, is that some things appear to be so small that they fly under the radar of some known laws some of the time, but not all of them all of the time. Once these things collect together into something even marginally larger, they loose this ability to go into "stealth mode", and behave accordingly.
"If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics."
"If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics."
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