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Old 11-05-2005, 02:02 AM
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Default Re: Restating the Paradox

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quantum mechanics can describe the probabilities that an individual electron in the beam will pass through the left slit or the right slit, but it cannot predict which slit it will go through.


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QM isn't omniscient.

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Since you apparently missed it, I've bolded the second half of my statement for your convenience. Variation is random. Selection is not.


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Which makes it either accidental or determined. Neither produce free will.

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Really. How? I mean, I presume you have a naturalistic mechanism all worked out to explain this, right? I'm all ears.


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I thought you did.

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So how exactly does the physical Free Will mechanism operate?


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In God's universe we are more than chemistry. In a naturalistic, random, determined, accidental universe we are only chemistry.

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I'm not even sure what this means, if anything


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Chance and accident are synonymous. Just interchange the terms.
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