PhiDiP - Thursday, Oct. 15
This week is the final installment of our Quantum Mechanics series, which is culminating in our discussion about free will.
Does QM guarantee that free will is possible, or does it simply not
apply? Do some digging on your own, but here are a few resources to get
you started:
This article from Scientific American has a good overview of a few
different approaches, as well as some more in-depth links. Make sure to
click the "Read next page" button until you get the whole article.
To give you fair warning, Dr. Doyle uses "chaotic" and "random" to
mean the same thing, which we won't do anymore now that we've learned a
little about chaos theory. But beyond that, this Harvard astrophysicist
provides a nice, brief background on the subject. Browse some of the
Free Will links in the left column to get more overview of free will in
general.
From the physics media mogul Dr. Michio Kaku, this short video argues that quantum uncertainty allows free will to be possible.
A brief response to Dr. Kaku's video, where the author feels Dr.
Kaku is oversimplifying the matter... It seems consensus on these
matters is impossible, even amongst celebrated physicists!
This one doesn't address the type of free will we will generally be
discussing, but it does have a brief treatment on Bell's theorem (which
will be good to familiarize yourself with anyway). It also presents a
new idea for testing that loophole in Bell's theorem!
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