Contesting Determinism (Robert Wright & Oliver Burkeman)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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I'm a Determinist on the Free Will Question
Quantum physicists don't agree with one another about what it all means. There are even some physicists who believe that the conscious act of a a measurement, a, the consciousness part of measuring something, can influence physical reality. So i'm personally, studiously agnostic, im, on the free will question. And in fact, i kind of think that that's the only reasonable position for me to take. I mean, there are people who think we do have a clued-up understanding of quantum physics - and they're not right. A good model would still be between the material and the world of subjective experience which is within the realm of free will.
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