Who cares?? (whether it is your last Titor thread or not!)
Now, there is something else on the Internet today (over at ATS) about secret *.pdf files, one given again to that whatever he is Alex Jones from a Missouri police Officer, stating in the report that Libertarianism is considered something like being a violent terrorist something or other in this Country or something similiar to that.
Now here is a new science paper:
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arXiv:0903.1859 (cross-list from quant-ph) [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Free will, undecidability, and the problem of time in quantum gravity
Authors: Rodolfo Gambini, Jorge Pullin
Comments: 10 pages, no figures. This essay received the Second Community Prize in the Foundational Questions Institute (fqxi.org) essay contest
Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
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We would like to put forward
the proposal that adopting the regularist point of view together with the idea of undecidability
may allow to confront important objections to the libertarian3 stance. These types of objections
have been repeatedly leveled against attempts to substantiate free will based on the probabilistic
nature of quantum mechanics. In fact if quantum mechanics only implies a mere lack of causal
determination in the occurrence of events, this is not sufficient to ensure that it makes sense to
consider a free act for which responsibility is possible. These objections stem from the potential
fallacy of considering that only two exclusive alternatives exist: the deterministic and the random,
excluding the possibility that the agent have any capability to control or self-determination over
her acts. Implicit in this argument is the necessitarian point of view which excludes all aspects of
reality not controlled by physical laws.
To conclude, we have observed that inherent limitations in the measurement process introduced
by the use of a relational notion of time in quantum gravity appear to imply undecidability in
the laws of physics. This strengthens the regularist vision of physical laws and opens the door to
an essential difference through which free acts lead to different possible evolutions of the quantum
state when an event takes place. The ability to act freely we discuss stems from quantum mechanics
and therefore has a universal character. It is not entirely clear that it is connected with the decision
making process of humans. It is currently widely contentious if quantum mechanics plays any role
in processes in the human brain [28]. It would be quite disappointing if a universe that naturally
includes in the laws of physics the capability for free acts will end up disallowing them for human
beings.
This work was supported in part by grants nsf-phy0650715, and by funds of the Horace C.
Hearne Jr. Institute for Theoretical Physics, FQXi, PEDECIBA and PDT (Uruguay) and CCTLSU.
3 Libertarianism in this context is a philosophical position that states that human beings have free will and that
the latter is incompatible with determinism. This is usually interpreted to imply that determinism is false. Among
the exponents of this point of view (“incompatibilistsâ€) are Peter van Inwagen, Robert Kane, Laura Ekstrom,
Timothy O’Connor and Thomas Pink [27].
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0903/0903.1859v1.pdf
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Perhaps in an opinion, other people will now be bcoming what I term "Madhatters!"
Just my guess, but is there some in this so-called "Government"?
Some people in my opinion use terms like religion for perhaps other purposes, and then
perhaps some people don't use it at all! Just control freaks from the Past! Do I know for
sure? Perhaps not, perhaps......................more thinking has to be done!
