So say a couple of Mathematicians from Princeton, John Conway and Simon Kochen. Conway will present the theorem supporting this view during a six week lecture series. The two define free will as the lack of necessary and sufficient conditions in any previous state to determine (or to help us predict) the present state of conditions. From the Princeton press release:
“It’s not about theories anymore — it’s about what the universe does,” said Kochen, a professor of mathematics and the associate chair of the Department of Mathematics. “And we’ve found that, from moment to moment, nature doesn’t know what it’s going to do. A particle has a choice.”
3 Comments
May 1, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Okay so pretty much, none of us have control over anything?!
May 15, 2009 at 8:08 am
“Scientists” – gotta love’em. Can’t differentiate between how things seem and how things are. Want a better idea of the nature of freedom – read Kant’s Groundwork. Even Spinoza knew better.
May 15, 2009 at 8:11 am
In fact, they just performed a reductio ad absurdum on their own position.