QUANTUM RANDOMNESS AND THE ILLUSION OF

FREE WILL

WHAT IS FREE WILL?The power of acting without the constraint of necessity or

fateWe are authors of our own actionsBlame…..We blame ourselves for our actions, We blame

people around us…We blame the society…

EXPLORING THE ILLUSION OF FREE WILL

Free will exists• Deviations from Causality• Quantum Mechanics• Law of Relativity

Free will is an Illusion• Causality• Determinism• Libertarianism

WHY QUANTUM MECHANICS CAN’T RESCUE FREE WILL

• Newtonian/Classical Physics approves Causality• 1920s…Quantum Physics was discovered• 1925…Heisenberg comes up with uncertainty

principle

UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE

Δx * ΔPx = h/4πPosition and Momentum of a microscopic

particle, such as an electron can’t be determined simultaneously

QM CAN’T RESCUE FREE WILL• We can use groups of particles to find Position and Momentum

and then through mathematics derive the behavior/prediction of a single Particle.

• QM establishes Random will but not free will• One should note that Heisenberg's uncertainty principle does not

say "everything is uncertain." Rather, it tells us very exactly where the limits of uncertainty lie when we make measurements of sub-atomic events.

QUANTUM RANDOMNESS

Game TheoryLearning Randomness

QUANTUM COHERENCE IN BIOLOGY

QUANTUM COHERENCE IN BIOLOGY

STUDIES THAT COULD HELP

1. Shortest Time Scales of any events in the brain that we can connect to Decision Making?

2. Longest Coherence Time of Superposition time of anything that goes on in that brain that can be measured?

3. The non linear operations of a human brain to be related to the linear results produced in above 2 experiments

FREE WILL• Freedom to Deliberate• Freedom to Develop Character

CONCLUSION According to the strong indirect indications at hand Free Will is certainly an illusion according to Science. Therefore, we are biological Machines But Quantum Superposition and Quantum Coherence in biological systems might lead us to

Compatibilism

In the fight between Religion and Science….Science will always win because Logic and Reasononing