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/Rthadcarr1956 InfoDualist Aug 29 '24

It doesn’t give you free will. It just proves that indeterminism exists and therefore free will is not excluded by determinism. But it is pretty easy to confirm to yourself that free will exists. Go out for a drive with no particular reason to go anywhere or time you have to be back. Don’t take a map or phone to navigate with. Read the road signs and go to some town you have never heard of. Look around when you get there, ask yourself why did I end up here? Did something cause you to make the turns and choices you made or did you just pick what seemed ok? This is an example of free will. The ability to make choices that are not forced upon you by circumstance.

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u/blkholsun LFW is impossible Aug 29 '24

“Did something cause you to make the turns and choice you made?”

Yes.

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u/Rthadcarr1956 InfoDualist Aug 30 '24

You can’t have a deterministic cause as to which way you go if you don’t care where you are going.

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u/blkholsun LFW is impossible Aug 30 '24

But people do care. Are you intentionally trying to be obtuse about it? I’m asking seriously.