The Mechanics of Free Will

[bartosz]

t'Hooft makes a good point about quantum theory vs. determinism. Let me elaborate a bit.

Quantum physics can only predict probabilities of events. To many physicists (including t'Hooft) this is very disconcerting. Is it really true that the state of the universe cannot be fully predicted from moment to moment? Or is this a shortcoming of our

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[anonymous]

This is really fascinating! Would it imply that what we call/perceive 'free will' is just an illusion?

Radek

[bartosz]

"Free will" is one of these subjective concepts that's not even well defined. Is "beauty" an illusion?

[anonymous]

If that is the case then maybe using the term "free will" in the reasoning presented above is completely out of place. We cannot say that there is an assumption of experimenter's "free will" if we haven't defined what "free will" really is.
But that aside, the whole thing is very interesting.