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Adorable_Class_4733 t1_j8v0jd4 wrote

Reply to comment by Sculptasquad in No second law of entanglement manipulation after all | Nature Physics by Memetic1

You're looking at this from a dualistic lens. It doesn't have to be either no free will or completely free will... Just like freedom of speech doesn't have to be completely free or completely censored... It's on a spectrum Perhaps we have some limited form of agency which is deterministic and yet unpredictable/undecidable Basically. If we copy pasted this universe and observed how the two would evolve over time. We would expect them to remain identical, because that's what deterministic means yet we would not be able to predict human behavior. As close to free will as it gets without involving the supernatural and the idea of a soul that is immaterial...

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Sculptasquad t1_j8vcsi4 wrote

>It's on a spectrum Perhaps we have some limited form of agency which is deterministic and yet unpredictable/undecidable Basically.

If you have to do what the diceroll/random number generator/coin flip tells you, you do not have free will. You have random will. Sure if you redefine free will to mean not free will you can have all the free will you want...

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Adorable_Class_4733 t1_j8vczez wrote

I see your point. I think what I meant is that free will and having agency aren't mutually inclusive. You can have agency and no absolute free will .

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Sculptasquad t1_j8vddz4 wrote

Sure. Agency is just the state of being active. Any robot, machine or stone rolling down a hill has agency.

The issue is that we are all just small portions of the big machine or lifeform of the universe. You can imagine us as individual blood cells within the body of the universe. The universe programmed our brains bound by physical determinism and set us off.

We are only experienceing what the universe set in motion eons ago.

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