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Re:Consciousness as a State of Matter (2015) by DtnB on Thursday January 31, 2019 @01:31PM (#19047334)
no but the fact that something is not deterministic would preclude the idea that 'basic physics says there is no free will'
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Re:Consciousness as a State of Matter (2015) by YjSe2GMQ on Sunday February 03, 2019 @12:25AM (#19068031)
Sorry but that is exactly what I meant: the world is a) either deterministic or b) partially deterministic and partially random (for example quantum), and in either of these cases there's no way you can construct free will agents.

Arguably the b) version is not simple physics, but that's what I meant.

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