Is there freewill?

[Ben Davis]

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What what will would happen to the christian religion of there is not? As it is right now the only reason to think there could be freewill is because of the heinzberg uncertainty principle which states that you cannot know where the electron is. This principle was postulated in the 1920s, and has yet to be proven wrong. How ever there is good reason to think it may be wrong, and simply a limitation of our knowledge and technology. If that is the case that mean that according to classical everything has been set in motion since the big bang. In other words no freewill.

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I dislike the term 'free will' and prefer to frame the situation in terms of decision-making: What are the assumptions, constraints, dependencies, risks and issues surrounding human decision-making processes? I think this is a far better defined and more answerable question. In real-world terms, there are far more constraints around the decision to eat when compared to the decision to wear socks, for example, and using that model allows us to review moral questions, too. We can also use the model to compare human decision-making to that of other life-forms.

Since human decision-making is a property of the neural processing of data, I don't know if quantum measurements have much influence and re. Heisenberg, I don't see the relevance of particle-location methods.