How Free Will Could Will
History and Philosophy of Physics
2012-02-10 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
Many have proposed that free will would use quantum indeterminism. Strict adherence to the Born rule, which follows from the no-signal condition, seems to block this possibility. I propose here that if state collapse really does occur then there is a further form of indeterminism occurring in multipartite systems in that the basis upon which the collapse is to occur could be ambiguous. The choice of this basis is not covered by quantum mechanics nor subject to probability constraints and this provides a ground for a physical and eventually a mathematical model of free will.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1202.2007,
title = {How Free Will Could Will},
author = {George Svetlichny},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.2007},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
11 pages