well, the Wikipedia article is confusing. the intro summarizes what sounds like a reduction to absurdity of the concept of free will, demonstrating that if it exists, then there must be elementary particles that have it
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Replying to @chaosprime @djinnius
Well, if we stop chauvinistically assuming that the "Observer" of quantum mechanics must be a human, then the logical conclusion is that a particle is "observed" whenever it interacts with another particle, and that free will is an inherent property to all matter.
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Replying to @PomoPsiOp @djinnius
the privileged observer is just pop mysticism and the academic sources it emanated from should be fucking ashamed of themselves
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wow... so yeah, that is definitely a reduction to absurdity of free will... and not only did everybody in the Reception section of the Wikipedia article miss the point, so did Conway
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well... no? people are consistently talking about it as if it demonstrates the existence of free will. it doesn't; if you take free will *as a postulate* it demonstrates consequences of that. Conway then demonstrates free will by handwaving.
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i'm trying to think of something that has less factual illustrative power than choice of axioms and it's damned hard unless all you want illustrated is what axioms somebody likes
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oh, i have no investment in that position and don't think it's the case, but Conway here doesn't refute it either, in the whole thing free will is just a black box hypothetical causal phenomenon whose provenance isn't raised as a question
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he provides a model of necessary derivation of free will of collections of particles from free will of particles, he doesn't provide a model of free will at all; his fully baseless axiom of free will could rely on many-worlds or not, the question isn't asked
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