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Quantum Randomness and the Illusion of Free Will

Quantum Randomness and the Illusion of Free Will. What is free will?. The power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate We are authors of our own actions Blame…..We blame ourselves for our actions, We blame people around us…We blame the society ….

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Quantum Randomness and the Illusion of Free Will

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  1. Quantum Randomness and the Illusion of Free Will

  2. What is free will? • The power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate • We are authors of our own actions • Blame…..We blame ourselves for our actions, We blame people around us…We blame the society…

  3. Exploring the Illusion of free will Free will exists Free will is an Illusion Causality Determinism Libertarianism • Deviations from Causality • Quantum Mechanics • Law of Relativity

  4. Why Quantum Mechanics can’t rescue free will • Newtonian/Classical Physics approves Causality • 1920s…Quantum Physics was discovered • 1925…Heisenberg comes up with uncertainty principle

  5. Uncertainty Principle Δx * ΔPx = h/4π Position and Momentum of a microscopic particle, such as an electron can’t be determined simultaneously

  6. Qm can’t rescue Free Will • We can use groups of particles to find Position and Momentum and then through mathematics derive the behavior/prediction of a single Particle. • QM establishes Random will but not free will • One should note that Heisenberg's uncertainty principle does not say "everything is uncertain." Rather, it tells us very exactly where the limits of uncertainty lie when we make measurements of sub-atomic events.

  7. Quantum Randomness • Game Theory • Learning Randomness

  8. Quantum Coherence in Biology

  9. Quantum Coherence In Biology

  10. Studies That Could Help • Shortest Time Scales of any events in the brain that we can connect to Decision Making? • Longest Coherence Time of Superposition time of anything that goes on in that brain that can be measured? • The non linear operations of a human brain to be related to the linear results produced in above 2 experiments

  11. Free Will • Freedom to Deliberate • Freedom to Develop Character

  12. Conclusion • According to the strong indirect indications at hand Free Will is certainly an illusion according to Science. • Therefore, we are biological Machines • But Quantum Superposition and Quantum Coherence in biological systems might lead us to Compatibilism In the fight between Religion and Science….Science will always win because Logic and Reasononing

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