“In Thou Art Physics, I pointed out that since you are within physics, anything you control is necessarily controlled by physics.”
I could just as easily argue since I’m within my past self’s future light cone, anything I control is/was necessarily controlled by (a younger) me. In both cases we are playing with words and muddying the waters rather than learning or teaching.
I don’t see why you can’t just reverse the logic and claim that since everything in my mind is controlled by physics, thought is an act of my free will. I don’t believe in strong free will. But I do believe by the time a toddler can form ideals (desires ice cream) that aren’t real, some free will is already at work.
The theory (math is not subject to General Relativity and thus “deterministic” is this description has nothing to do with the “deterministic” used to describe human actions)of MWI may be deterministic, but playing with English language words suggests actors can’t choose their world-lines by using the physics of their minds to cascade synchronized neural firing patterns that activate the parts of our brains producing minds. Maybe there is no free will, but I’d need to see a convincing theory of consciousness absent circular reasoning.
The Plinko disc make fall determinalistically, but if the Plinko chip had a human CNS and accurate memories of past drops, I bet it might try to rotate in a preferred fall path, and if the Plinko chip based its decision on reflected ideals, I’d say there is some free will there (neuron firing seems at a small enough scale to harness some of the quantum-spooky-stuff that causes universes to split off, for instance. I think our brains can control the % of world-lines that decide whether to binge eat ice cream. Equating a block universe to MWI assumes there is an end state where the total ratio of all time-space co-ordinates is known. in reality, this end state does not exist (as time breaks down outside reality, like when forming the mathematical concept of a block universe).
There are many random events that control which world-line an individual experiences, but I don’t see why volitions can’t be among the cases. I doubt few people defending free will really mean to defend their right to bring about their own birth.
“In Thou Art Physics, I pointed out that since you are within physics, anything you control is necessarily controlled by physics.”
I could just as easily argue since I’m within my past self’s future light cone, anything I control is/was necessarily controlled by (a younger) me. In both cases we are playing with words and muddying the waters rather than learning or teaching.
I don’t see why you can’t just reverse the logic and claim that since everything in my mind is controlled by physics, thought is an act of my free will. I don’t believe in strong free will. But I do believe by the time a toddler can form ideals (desires ice cream) that aren’t real, some free will is already at work. The theory (math is not subject to General Relativity and thus “deterministic” is this description has nothing to do with the “deterministic” used to describe human actions)of MWI may be deterministic, but playing with English language words suggests actors can’t choose their world-lines by using the physics of their minds to cascade synchronized neural firing patterns that activate the parts of our brains producing minds. Maybe there is no free will, but I’d need to see a convincing theory of consciousness absent circular reasoning. The Plinko disc make fall determinalistically, but if the Plinko chip had a human CNS and accurate memories of past drops, I bet it might try to rotate in a preferred fall path, and if the Plinko chip based its decision on reflected ideals, I’d say there is some free will there (neuron firing seems at a small enough scale to harness some of the quantum-spooky-stuff that causes universes to split off, for instance. I think our brains can control the % of world-lines that decide whether to binge eat ice cream. Equating a block universe to MWI assumes there is an end state where the total ratio of all time-space co-ordinates is known. in reality, this end state does not exist (as time breaks down outside reality, like when forming the mathematical concept of a block universe). There are many random events that control which world-line an individual experiences, but I don’t see why volitions can’t be among the cases. I doubt few people defending free will really mean to defend their right to bring about their own birth.