[Avodah] free will

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 09:41:16AM +0300, Eli Turkel wrote:
:>They're not saying that quantum uncertainty is the freedom in freedom
:> of will, but that the role of measurement places constraints on what
:> can determine which measurement the experimentor chooses to make.

: Or to be more precise it places no constraints and so all possibilities
: are equally possible and so maximizes the information content.
: It says nothing about free will in the philosophic sense and in fact would
: seem to go against the concept of nekudat habechirah. i.e. for every
: such experiment every conceivable observation needs to be equally
: probable.

I don't understand.

The paper is not about quantum uncertainty, it's about quantum
measurement. Yes, every observation must be probable in proportion to
the square of the magnitude of the wave function.

But the paper isn't about the findings, it's about the inability to
predetermine which kind of observation will be made. What about the
particle, if anything, will be measured.

It seems to me that you're speaking of the randomness inherent in what
that measurement will find. A different topic.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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