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Re:Does quantum theory imply the entire Universe is preordai... by coderenegade on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @04:49PM (#38702167)
Many worlds is really just another form of determinism. If everything that can happen does, no one in any of the individual universes has free will.
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Re:Does quantum theory imply the entire Universe is preordai... by numinos1 on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @05:56PM (#38703100)
Unless awareness is independent of the universe and traverses the branching worlds through observation and free will.
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Re:Does quantum theory imply the entire Universe is preordai... by amanaplanacanal on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @12:20AM (#38705714)
Does that imply that I have free will and the rest of you all are zombies?
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Re:Does quantum theory imply the entire Universe is preordai... by GoblinSlayer on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @08:14AM (#38708259)
Free will is compatible with determinism. Also may worlds reproduces statistics of independent events, which is equivalent to hard determinism is you declare that choices are unitary.
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