Worthy Read: Free Will Or Reality - One Of These Is An Illusion
The cover story of the 18 June 2005 issue of New Scientist provides a thought-provoking perspective on free will and reality.
If Gisin's experiments can be trusted - and most physicists believe they can - and quantum theory is right, then basic logic says there is something fundamentally wrong with our view of the universe. It would be good news for quantum theory, but bad news for some of our deepest preconceptions about the nature of reality. "Either space-time is an illusion," Gisin says, "or free will is an illusion."
But it may be more profound still. There is a third option, favoured by several physicists who have looked at Gisin's work: that the laws of nature may somehow conspire to keep quantum theory's strangest predictions from ever coming true, and that understanding why may point physicists towards a deeper theory from which quantum rules emerge.Click here to read the preview of the article Discovering the True Nature of Reality.
Posted by logan at September 3, 2005 05:45 AM
