maybe the long-running free-will/determinism debate continues because its terms of reference are flawed. The assertion that we must have one or the other _exclusively_, when clearly determinism destroys the concept of responsibility, but on the other hand much of the physical universe does indeed seem to function deterministically and we seem to be part of that universe. Quantum determinism (that is, that everything is governed by quantum events which are individually random and only statistically determined) seems even less satisfactory than classical determinism, which was at least predictable. My current theory is that free will (soul, consciousness, whatever) interacts with the physical deterministic world at the level of these quantum events. The fact that the raw results of an experiment (see Bell's theorem) seem to depend at a fundamental physical level on the intention of the experimenter, is, I think, some evidence for that.
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Date: 2007-03-21 11:52 pm (UTC)Which WCW work would you recommend for a novice?