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(12-09-2010, 11:59 PM)Rien J. Clyde link Wrote: Atoms and particles behave in probabilistic ways, but our mind if made of atoms and particles. How can free will exist?
Behavior is only deterministic within the constraints of one's existence and primal instincts, driving by the will and ability to be and stay alive, which can only be undermined by certain psychological conditions such as severe depressions. Furthermore, the chaos theory defines that while atoms may appear the behave in a deterministic manner, the nucleus and thus quarks which create them have certain physical abilities which make it impossible for them to act in a predictable way. Going even further, the actual gauge bosons are both too primitive and immune to environmental factors to be influenced by any kind of probabilistic patterns.
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