(January 18, 2015 at 4:07 am)Alex K Wrote: I've googled Greene and determinism and found this interview (don't have his books)Well, Greene appears to me to say that at the quantum scale, probabilities are determined in much the same way that Newtonian events are. On the one hand we have more room for variance but the outcome is still determined within a window that is always more or less opened given the states preceding it. Whereas you said:
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/helen-...s-universe
I find him to agree with me, don't you think? But he says something interesting about free will I didn't really think about: since QM still determines the probabilities of outcomes, he says, this constraint does not allow for free will. Then he goes on to say something vague about the measurement problem which I don't get what the difference to the previous statement is supposed to be.
(January 18, 2015 at 4:07 am)Alex K Wrote: there currently aren't good reasons to think the universe is deterministic
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