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passivate | 3 years ago

Wind the clock back to a time when you made a decision. Is it possible for you to make a different decision if you had the exact same mood/context/environment/knowledge and all the sub-atomic particles were exactly identical with the same spin, etc? Current dominant philosophical thought points towards a big NO.

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mort96|3 years ago

Well current scientific thought says yes because measuring the spin in a particle in a superposition is truly non-deterministic from the perspective of observers, but I don't think that's relevant and I'm happy to think about the brain as an entirely or mostly deterministic thing, so I don't think this is too relevant, but we're not in a clockwork universe.

passivate|3 years ago

>Well current scientific thought says yes

Link to evidence?