〈 Berger | Dillon 〉

There's very little room for free will, properly so-called

Combining quantum mechanics and Chaos theory....I think there is plenty of room...what happens when the sensitivity to initial conditions scale is smaller than Heisenberg uncertainty?

Free will is a testable hypothesis, which was tested and refined for around 30 years now (cf. Benjamin Libet experiment), which showed "that thing" that we recognize as free will is actually extremely predictable. Fair enough, maybe we just had the wrong definition.. 1/n

I like to shave with Ocamm"s razor. Hard to imagine you'd be able to predict that I would tweet this tweet based on a set of initial conditions 13 billion years ago.

I could if I have all the relevant information about the universe that gave rise to this moment (you tweeting). All I need are information about past events, in conjunction with the laws of nature to predict the current states (on a classical scale anyways).

But because of both quantum and chaos theory there is a physical limit to how much information even exists...so always some room for inderermenancy