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> the brain likely exploits quantum mechanics

This is not generally accepted if it means anything more than how anything exploits quantum mechanics.



I'm not exactly sure where people extract free will from quantum randomness, so there's a bunch of quantum random number generators (using some sort of voltage breakdown/shot noise thing, I suppose), and that somehow conspires to help you think and make decisions instead of just jittering things a bit like you would expect from random number generators?


That line made me go "whaaaaaaaaa?" as well. I mean, I know about Penrose and other other research, but no one's put it all together. Citation F#@king Needed.


It sounds like the sort of thing someone too invested in the idea of their thoughts being non-deterministic and 'free will'-like would think.


It’s way easier to just give up the scientific mumbo jumbo and be wholly uninterested in the topic as regardless of any free will or not I’m going to keep on existing and acting as if I have free will. So the question literally doesn’t matter. “Oh you say I don’t have free will, I’ll just use my philosophical zombie powers and lack of qualia to punch you in your dumb face, nerd”.

This is my current solution to the problem of free will. It seems to be working pretty well.


> regardless of any free will or not I’m going to keep on existing and acting as if I have free will

You don’t really have a choice. :3

It’s a really strong “user illusion”, we can’t help but think in that way.




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