Thursday, April 3, 2014

Philosophy Wire: Free will, quantum mechanics, ancient light.


Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-04-03]: Testing for the existence of free will with ancient light. [1] Are we free to choose the settings of a particle detector? Are we free to test if we are free to choose the settings of a particle detector? We will never know. Maybe we should just stop searching. And simply go set up the damn detector! Doubting the very existence of free will is the ultimate indicator of its existence!

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