What’s your view on determinism and free will ?
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Replying to @HerbertHitchens
There's very little room for free will, properly so-called
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Replying to @InertialObservr @HerbertHitchens
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?
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Replying to @cenobyte3 @HerbertHitchens
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
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Replying to @InertialObservr @HerbertHitchens
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.
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Replying to @cenobyte3 @HerbertHitchens
Also, it should be noted that humans are very non-quantum systems, at non quantum energy scales
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Replying to @InertialObservr @HerbertHitchens
Apparently been some research suggesting conciousness is a quantum phenomenon...I haven't looked at enough to agree or disagree.
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Of course, every quantum system has an Ehrenfest's theorem. However, if they mean that in a nontrivial way, then I'm pretty sure the fact that consciousness is not statistical/random would violate the uncertainty principle.
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