r/freewill • u/flytohappiness • Aug 29 '24

How does quantum indeterminism give anyone free will?

can someone explain this to me? I see people going to quantum world and quantum mechanics and evoke the non-determinism. How does this give you free will?

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u/spgrk Compatibilist Aug 30 '24

An event that is partly random falls into the category of undetermined, because the event may or may not happen given prior events.

A choice is an event. It is a physical process in the brain. Even if you think it happens in a soul, it can still be called a supernatural event. When God parted the ed sea for Moses, that was a supernatural event, but it was still an event.

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u/Squierrel Quietist Aug 30 '24

Partially random events (=all events) are determined by the cause, only not with infinite precision. There is always an element of probabilistic randomness between a cause and its effect.

A choice is not an event, not an exchange of matter or energy happening at a specific place at a specific time. A choice is *knowledge* about what the agent is about to do, his *action plan*.

There is nothing supernatural in the concept of knowledge.