RE: Determinism, Free Will and Paradox
January 17, 2015 at 3:33 pm
(This post was last modified: January 17, 2015 at 3:41 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
"Random" in our everyday use of the term implies that any outcome is equally possible - that between two outcomes, it's 50/50 (so on and so forth). This is not at all what we see in QM. What we see instead, is that with a sufficient number QM experiments a range of probability arises. If you repeat the experiment again the same number of times the same range of probabilities will arise (if they didn't, we'd have no QM..it would be a big fat undefined from the floor up), where did all the randomness go? QM, at present, doesn't offer us any evidence either way when it comes to whether or not "the universe", at that level of interaction is just "random"......but that doesn't matter much in the context of a discussion about human beings...because up here, at this level, shit is demonstrably non-random...even if things are "truly" rather than "apparently" random..down there.
It's not your term (apparent randomness) that I disagree with at all, just cautioning against losing the subtlety of what it means -within QM- and what that doesn't mean with regards to us, or anything at our level of interaction. We'll exhaust my knowledge of the subject extremely quick...but I've never needed to know a whole lot to diffuse most "but QM" statements.
(also, durka durka...copenhagen jihad!)
It's not your term (apparent randomness) that I disagree with at all, just cautioning against losing the subtlety of what it means -within QM- and what that doesn't mean with regards to us, or anything at our level of interaction. We'll exhaust my knowledge of the subject extremely quick...but I've never needed to know a whole lot to diffuse most "but QM" statements.
(also, durka durka...copenhagen jihad!)
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