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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Replying to @chaosprime @PomoPsiOp
I used to encourage reading the paper but
@Alrenous linked me to a blog that makes it clearer https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~jas/one/freewill-theorem.html …3 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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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It's a reduction to /quantum mechanics/ of free (will|whim). Absurdity is your adjective.
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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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t h e a x i om o f c h o i c e i s a x i o m a t i c
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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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This started with "The only way free will can work is if the Many worlds theorem of quantum mechanics is true", which is refuted by the Strong Free Will Theorem.
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The development of both quantum mechanics and the relativities was predicated on better axioms.
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