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Originally Posted by Neo
Free will is an illusion of experience arising from a complex neural system which is really just a glorified marble system governed by the laws of ballistic motion. If a super scientist had a map of your brain and knew where all the electrical impulses were located, he could predict exactly what you are going to say, think, and do for the rest of your life. Providing of course that he had you locked in a room where he could control external stimulus, and discounting quantum effects.
Not that it really matters. You're as free as you need to be. It makes no difference if your choices are predetermined as long as you're not technically being "forced" to make one particular choice over another.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_de...ft_Determinism |
How do you sleep at night?
And isn't discounting quantum effects....cheating?
I'm skeptical you will ever read this thread again, but I had two questions that I really can only direct at you since you're a physics whiz.
One is: what is your take on quantum mechanics? Is it legit or just a lot of theory still.....
The second one (which I never got to ask a physics prof.): My basic understanding is when you have an observer a wave particle collapses...if there was never an observer how would wave partices collapse? That is to say...how are we here.... I think my question is pretty dumb and illustrates my basic lack of understanding of physics, but with Wikipedia as a primary resource I figured maybe you could provide a simple explanation.