I agree that Dennett's "Elbow Room" does a pretty good job of disentangling (heh) quantum whatsit issues from more sensible ponderings about free will. Anyway, the term "free will" in the recent paper is just a special technical term for the purpose of the paper, provides no useful connection to philosophy, and is either a conscious joke or dig at the theories it's criticizing, or is a really bad choice that mainly serves to confuse conversations about the result. |http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/quant-ph/pdf/0604/0604079v1.pdf | |Mind you |- it's not really about free will, free will is a |stronger and fuzzier |claim than non determinism |- it doesn't really disprove determinism because then the |experiment itself |is a deterministic event. | |The main result seems to be disproving ( special |relativity ^ GRW ) and |Yah, that terminology is a distraction. | ||The main result seems to be disproving ( special ||relativity ^ GRW ) | |And also a variety of hidden variable theories. :) GRW as I understand it is a theory where individual particles actually collapse their state, but very rarely. --Steve -- My apples and oranges are beyond compare!