I don't know what I think of the existence of free will per se, but just on heuristic grounds, this *implication* is not surprising. I.e., if determinism applied to all sufficiently small regions of the universe, then it would seem to necessarily apply to larger regions. So if the latter fails, the former must, too. --Dan Ray wrote: << http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/20/1229233 snahgle writes "Mathematicians John Conway (inventor of the Game of Life) and Simon Kochen of Princeton University have proven that if human experimenters demonstrate 'free will' in choosing what measurements to take on a particle, then the axioms of quantum mechanics require that <http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0604079>the free will property be available to the particles measured, or to the universe as a whole. . . .
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