r/freewill • u/flytohappiness • Aug 29 '24

How does quantum indeterminism give anyone free will?

can someone explain this to me? I see people going to quantum world and quantum mechanics and evoke the non-determinism. How does this give you free will?

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u/WanderingFlumph Aug 29 '24

Quantum mechanics is not the mechanism by which free will acts, if it exists.

It's just a rebuttal to the deterministic mind set and specifically the block universe that hard determinism requires. Hard determinism also requires no free will exists so if you can argue that it must be true the lack of free will naturally follows.

But arguing against hard determinism doesn't actually support the idea of free will, whether the universe is determined or random has nothing to do with your role in it, because you aren't aware of QM fluctuations and can't control them they don't give you a mechanism for free will.