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Quantum Physics and Free Will Anonymous Sat Mar 28 23:15:27 2020 No.11511131 [Reply] [Original]

Sorry if this gets asked a lot or if this is the wrong board but what are you thoughts on free will? Do you think a field like quantum mechanics can prove we do or don't have free will? Is it possible that everything down to the atomic level in our universe was already determined to be in specific places at specific times? Was I already determined to type this out on this message board since the dawn of our world or did I truly choose to do it?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 28 23:27:22 2020 No.11511155 The inexistence of free will is perfectly provable with deterministic and classical physics. Quantum anything isn't even needed.

Ksenia !!/HQMg5yHuiK Sun Mar 29 00:05:27 2020 No.11511248

>>11511131
>Do you think a field like quantum mechanics can prove we do or don't have free will?
Depends on the details of what one understands by free will. We already have thermal noise which prevents one to predict the future of a system even if we could observe the position, velocity and electronic configuration of individual atoms of an human being. Quantum noise does not add anything new in any in a practical sense.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 00:14:15 2020 No.11511275 >>11511155 This guys right.

Anonymous Sun Mar 29 00:18:09 2020 No.11511282

>>11511131
>Do you think a field like quantum mechanics can prove we do or don't have free will?
No.

>Is it possible that everything down to the atomic level in our universe was already determined to be in specific places at specific times?
Yes.

>Was I already determined to type this out on this message board since the dawn of our world
Yes.

>did I truly choose to do it?
Yes.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 00:32:40 2020 No.11511307 bah free will doesn't exist even if the universe is deterministic, it's not you it's dog playing dice

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 18:12:03 2020 No.11513373 As an actually knowledgeable person in physics, this question is outside the scope of physics

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 18:21:32 2020 No.11513404 >>11511248 post feet

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 18:42:08 2020 No.11513431 >>11511131 The scientific consensus is that free will exists.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 14:28:35 2020 No.11515683 bump

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 16:22:49 2020 No.11515995 >>11513431 Proof?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 19:43:23 2020 No.11516538 >>11515995 becuase he said so

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 20:00:38 2020 No.11516562 File: 377 KB, 400x521, yudkowsky bayes.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11511131 Free will isn't even a coherent concept in the first place. https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Free_will_(solution)

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