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Free will and quantum mechanics

שו”תCategory: faithFree will and quantum mechanics
asked 5 years ago

In your books you argue that quantum mechanics is irrelevant to the question of choice.
However, ultimately, this is a question with scientific implications: what was the move that moved the electron that ignited the chain of choice? From this perspective, an event of a quantum nature can support free choice, because it is an event that occurred without a cause, and precisely an event that appears random can be interpreted as resulting from a free act.
 


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מיכי Staff answered 5 years ago
In my book I also explained why in my opinion this is irrelevant. In quantum theory there is a distribution and if there is an involvement of the will it is contrary to the distribution (and see more there). I also explained there that the involvement of the will can hide behind quantum theory but not be explained by it. Well said.

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