RE: Determinism, Free Will and Paradox
January 18, 2015 at 8:44 am
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2015 at 8:49 am by The Grand Nudger.)
-and that's the (or one of the) hook for why things seem so different in a QM experiment than they do in our lives as we experience them, or the universe as we experience -it-. If you isolate something, and find that a great deal is possible - that's not entirely surprising. Once you have forces pushing in from every direction, and a mountain of the same behind you....many of those possibilities that a QM particle might be able to realize in isolation become a non-issue as a part in the whole mess of interaction at a massively grander scale.
To put it another way, the more modifiers you add, the smaller the range of probability becomes. Perhaps x can be whatever it wants, it's truly random. However, when x interacts with y, lets say (just for ease of use) that half of those possibilities are removed. Add a z, take away another half. So forth and so on for everything that's interacting with any other thing....and up here...there's a whole hell of alot of "things".
To put it another way, the more modifiers you add, the smaller the range of probability becomes. Perhaps x can be whatever it wants, it's truly random. However, when x interacts with y, lets say (just for ease of use) that half of those possibilities are removed. Add a z, take away another half. So forth and so on for everything that's interacting with any other thing....and up here...there's a whole hell of alot of "things".
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