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How does Benjamin Libet's experiments provide evidence against Free will?
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-The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.
Sir James Jeans
-This most beautiful system (The Universe) could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.All variety of created objects which represent order and Life in the Universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the Lord God.
Sir Isaac Newton
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(I'm a bit suspicious when I see Deepak Chopra's name on one of the pdfs, but I suppose even a whacko can comment on a serious subject.)
* And I note in passing it states Tegmark got his calculations wrong.Last edited by David Hayward; 01-31-2014, 02:49 PM.
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I have looked into this like David. What I found is this is a miss use of 'Quantum Mechanics.' Quantum Mechanics reflects the behavior of the energy/matter relationships of the basic particles of matter, and such things as 'dark matter and dark energy.' Also the calculations are questionable. In contrast, our brain (neurophysical interaction between the brain and the mind) and computers, are in the macro world. The problem of comparing the brain and computers, is that they function quite differently. The present computers are basically too simplistic to ever achieve the ability of the human brain The Turing question, will most likely never be resolved until computers can be developed that are based on the more complex and natural basis of the function of the brain. There is at present research on going that is attempting to develop computers more in line with how the human brain functions.Last edited by shunyadragon; 02-01-2014, 07:30 AM.Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:
go with the flow the river knows . . .
Frank
I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.
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I do not believe the evidence supports this. See my previous post. First the math is very questionable, second it is like comparing cars and stars, and third, questionable references.Last edited by shunyadragon; 02-01-2014, 07:32 AM.Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:
go with the flow the river knows . . .
Frank
I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.
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