... "This conclusion disagrees with suggestions that [...]quantum **coherence** is related to consciousness in a fundamental way." [ emphasis added ] The...
... Where do your desires come from ? ... The missing ingredient being...? ... First write a programme that implements rationallity... ... control, and ... ...
... You were free to do something if you could have done otherwise. "could have done otherwise" implies indeterminism. Indeterminism implies lack of suffient...
... I disagree with your conclusion. You seem to attribute some mystical meaning to "free". What do you mean by "free"? Best, -- Eray Ozkural (exa), PhD...
... Surely the "rest of the universe" for me contains other people. If they can change their futures , that will have an effect on my future. ... One man can...
... This would seem to make a random number generator free in its output, and all deterministic procedures whatsoever nonfree. Do you really think that is the...
... the ... the ... effect on ... and ... still ... scale, ... level), ... On a ... Yeah I get that. But there are times when these small acts of "freewill"...
Also, I posted that from my 2001 post (on another group) to point out some kind of a similarity to what Ray posted a few posts back. I do not assert the...
... I have offered the following definition of FW: "the ability to make rational choices that are not entirely determined by prior events". RNG's per se have...
... The choice must not be rational; consider the case when nobody is able to confirm/verify that a choice was made rational. So "the ability to make (even...
... able to ... Must not be , or may not be ? ... impressed by ... a number ... No; the presence of rationality is a necessary criterion for Free Will....
... Since I suppose that free will is the reason why a rational or an irrational choice can be made: both (w.o.w. don't care). ... It is perhaps a matter of...
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... In a recent issue of Nature (440, 611; 2006), Christoph Koch argues that it is highly improbable (see the uploaded file). However, I think he misses one...
I rather like that... brings to mind a physics joke. :) Bob: Hi Alice, whatcha doing? Alice: Hi Bob. I'm building a gravity wave detector. Bob: Far out. Those...
... firing ... argues that it is highly improbable (see the uploaded file). However, ... probably cannot display macroscopic quantum (i.e. classically ...
... Exactly what I say in my complexity paper, as "mild indeterminacy". It should be possible to show this theoretically, too, which is why I got fixated on...
... OK. Let's say QM has nothing to do with consciousness. Does that mean every *classical* system is conscious ? (Or maybe "X is necessary for F" doesn't mean...
... I'm sorry but you seem to draw a nonsensical conclusion, especially for the fact that there is no such thing as a classical system. But even if there were...
... What conclusion do you **think** I am drawing ? I agree that "if classical physics is connected with consciousness, all classical systems will be...
... In some interpretations of QM, the hot topic is where is the boarder between classical and quantum behavior. If one accepts "wave collapse" as an...
... But the conclusion of Dan Michaels is not nonsensical. If consciousness is a low-level basic property that QM gives, such as indeterminacy, then it is...
... And if QM is merely necessary for consciousnessm, and not sufficient, it is not, some othe ingredient being required. So this is at best an objection to...
... This is no explanation. We are not concerned with whom uses the algorithm. We are concerned with whether an implementation of randomized quicksort *has*...
... theory, ... going ... constant of ... now :) ... Yeah, what I said in the rest of my post, namely that real-world systems that "self-organize" have many...
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