Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Freedom of choice

When a single electron has to choose between two slits, it chooses to travel through both.


When a man makes the choice, he walks just one way, and denies himself the other. Man has free-will and a mind - the electron has not.

Science is very predicting, and therefore an enemy of free-will. Science can foretell full-moons, weather and passover. I am afraid research will leave humanity with no choice: Trust in God. Otherwise we will be bound to an inexorable fate, ruled by the Demon of Laplace.


  • "We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future. An intellect which at a certain moment would know all forces that set nature in motion, and all positions of all items of which nature is composed, if this intellect were also vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in a single formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the tiniest atom; for such an intellect nothing would be uncertain and the future just like the past would be present before its eyes." (Pierre-Simon Laplace)

I choose spam for breakfast, like I did yesterday and the day before that. I can not afford anything else, but I still have FREE-WILL.

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