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Re:Photons, Quasars and the Possibility of Free Will by millstone on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @02:06AM (#18606244)
A silver atom's angular momentum is aligned based on the field in a Stern-Gerlach device. This alignment determines how these atoms react to a future magnetic field. Therefore a silver atom's angular momentum is deterministic. But it's not.

A totally deterministic universe would have been a lot simpler. Why go through so much trouble?

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Re:Photons, Quasars and the Possibility of Free Will by gpderetta on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @04:34AM (#18606842)
Why there should be a why?
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Re:Photons, Quasars and the Possibility of Free Will by whatshisface on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @07:53AM (#18607764)
You don't get to know in advance which questions will pan out into answerable ones. You could answer "why should there be a why" to literally and question about why. In fact, you could have said that about the motion of the planets, right up until Newton - which shows that the category of things that can be answered like that contracts over time.
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Re:Photons, Quasars and the Possibility of Free Will by gpderetta on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @08:22AM (#18607935)
That's a how, not a why. Asking why is it worth the trouble ascribes intentionality to the universe where none is expected
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