Subatomic Particles may have free will

August 18th, 2008 Posted in Technology
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Sounds crazy right?, it’s almost like saying that your coffee table has free will, but two highly regarded Princeton mathematicians, John Conway and Simon Kochen, claim to have proven that if humans have even the tiniest amount of free will, then atoms themselves must also behave unpredictably” Standard interpretations of quantum mechanics, of course, embrace unpredictability. But many physicists aren’t comfortable with that, and are working to develop deterministic interpretations of quantum mechanics. Conway and Kochen’s proof argues that these efforts will be fruitless — unless one is willing to give up human free will, in a very strong sense. The article quotes Conway: “We can really prove that there’s no algorithm, no way that the particle can give an answer that is unique and can be specified ahead of time. I’m still amazed that we can actually manage to prove that.”

One Response to “Subatomic Particles may have free will”

  1. Gilgamesh Says:

    It’s not new, and it doesn’t mean particles have free will, only that we are unable to predict their behaviour.
    Mmmmm was what Heisenberg told nearly one century ago.

    What is really astonishing is that such claims are seen as real and valuable science


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