The Indeterminacy of Free Will

"God Does Not Play Dice"…

So Albert Einstein was quoted when dealing with the indeterminacy of Neils Bohr's randomness of Quantum Theory.

"In human freedom in the philosophical sense I am definitely a disbeliever. Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity. (Einstein)"

Einstein believed that quantum physics was incomplete. he was sure that one day an explanation would be found which would explain the causes of the apparent "indeterminacy" and once again make it plain that the universe was governed by laws. For the last thirty years he worked on his "Unified Field Theory" , never realizing it.

"I wish to adduce reasons which keeps me from falling in line with the opinion of almost all contemporary theoretical physicists. I am, in fact, firmly convinced that the essentially statistical character of contemporary quantum theory is solely to be ascribed to the fact that this [theory] operates with an incomplete description of physical systems." (Einstein)

He goes on to state:

"One arrives at very implausible theoretical conceptions, if one attempts to maintain the thesis that the statistical quantum theory is in principle capable of producing a complete description of an individual physical system. On the other hand, those difficulties of theoretical interpretation disappear, if one views the quantum-mechanical description as the description of ensembles of systems."

Neils Bohr believed "that matter was fundamentally indeterminate, and our knowledge of it limited to probabilities."

"Bohr argued against both determinism and realism. Determinism is the philosophy spurred by Newtonian mechanics, which says, that if all is known about a system at one point in time, all may be known about that quantity at any point in time. Thus, supporting an anti-determinist view, Bohr argued that complete knowledge of the present can result only in a description of what the future most probably will be like."

Thus, both Bohr and Einstein argued for and against the randomness of "Cause and Effect". Einstein stating that "Quantum probability is Epistemic (purely intellectual or cognitive" and Bohr arguing that "Quantum probability is Ontic" (having real being or existence) that is built into nature.

So now through all of this copying, cutting and pasting, and paraphrasing we come to the original content of this statement:

"Do we (humans in general) want to believe that our will is or can be formed freely from chains of natural causation? "Or does it imply that voluntary acts are not in some sense caused at all. Is that the same as saying that a voluntarist is committed to accepting a random component in human actions?"

Einstein, believes that it is not possible, while Bohr argues the randomness is filled with "quantum probabilities and organized chaos."

I would like to believe in Einstein, as to certain conditions lead up to "Cause and Effect", but at this point, we are not knowledgeable enough to disprove the probability of randomness.

Quotes:

"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice." Albert Einstein

"Not only does God play dice with the Universe - he sometimes casts them where they can't be seen." Stephen Hawking

"It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct." Michio Kaku Hyperspace, Oxford University Press, 1995, p 263

"Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." (Carroll, Lewis, Alice in Wonderland.)

"What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does." (Physics Instructor)

Quote: "I think I go now, and try and think of some more impossible things"... ferrous