Comment on do you think freewill truly exists?

• SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Chemical processes told me to tell you “quantum deez nutz” and I am powerless to disobey.

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• crt0o@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You’re assuming quantum indeterminism is random in the sense that there is no agency behind it, but there is no evidence of that. If anything, the fact we feel like we have free will suggests there might be some agency somewhere, and if it manifests anywhere, that is as indeterminism at the fundamental level.

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  • pcalau12i@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If there is an agent who is deciding it then that would show up in the statistics. Unless you’re saying there exists an agent who decides the outcomes but always just so happens to very conveniently decide they should be entirely random. lol

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    • crt0o@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      My idea is that the agent is the particle itself, and the laws of physics are simply the statistics of what decisions it tends to make. I imagine that if a fundamental particle like an electron was phenomenally conscious and had some kind of agency, it wouldn’t have any intention or self-awareness, so it would decide practically randomly, based on its quantum state, which would be some kind of rudimentary experience it has.

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      • pcalau12i@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I feel like this is no different practically speaking than just saying its behavior is random, but anthropomorphizing it for some reason.

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• iii@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  We’re harmonics in the differential equation called life

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