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López-Corredoira, Martín
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NeuroQuantology, Vol. 7, No. 3, p. 449-456
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2009
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Since quantum mechanics (QM) was formulated, many voices have claimed
this to be the basis of free will in the human beings. Basically, they
argue that free will is possible because there is an ontological
indeterminism in the natural laws, and that the mind is responsible for
the wave function collapse of matter, which leads to a choice among the
different possibilities for the body. However, I defend the opposite
thesis, that free will cannot be defended in terms of QM. First, because
indeterminism does not imply free will, it is merely a necessary
condition but not enough to defend it. Second, because all
considerations about an autonomous mind sending orders to the body is
against our scientific knowledge about human beings; in particular,
neither neurological nor evolutionary theory can admit dualism. The
quantum theory of measurement can be interpreted without the
intervention of human minds, but other fields of science cannot
contemplate the mentalist scenario, so it is concluded that QM has
nothing to say about the mind or free will, and its scientific
explanation is more related to biology than to physics. A fatalistic or
materialist view, which denies the possibility of a free will, makes
much more sense in scientific terms.