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Conway and Kochen, The Strong Free Will Theorem, published in Notices of the AMS. Volume 56, Number 2, February 2009. Rehmeyer, Julie (August 15, 2008). "Do Subatomic Particles Have Free Will?". Science News. Introduction to the Free Will Theorem, videos of six lectures given by J. H. Conway, Mar. 2009. Wüthrich, Christian (September 2011).
The law of truly large numbers (a statistical adage), attributed to Persi Diaconis and Frederick Mosteller, states that with a large enough number of independent samples, any highly implausible (i.e. unlikely in any single sample, but with constant probability strictly greater than 0 in any sample) result is likely to be observed. [1]
Renewal theory is the branch of probability theory that generalizes the Poisson process for arbitrary holding times. Instead of exponentially distributed holding times, a renewal process may have any independent and identically distributed (IID) holding times that have finite mean. A renewal-reward process additionally has a random sequence of ...
On that basis "...free will cannot be squeezed into time frames of 150–350 ms; free will is a longer term phenomenon" and free will is a higher level activity that "cannot be captured in a description of neural activity or of muscle activation..." [185] The bearing of timing experiments upon free will is still under discussion.
[2] Other means of reconciling God's omniscience with human free will have been proposed. Some have attempted to redefine or reconceptualize free will: God can know in advance what I will do, because free will is to be understood only as freedom from coercion, and anything further is an illusion.
The "non-free will" is mythology; in real life it is only a question of strong and weak will. [ 10 ] Nothing is (or can be) fully resistant to stimuli, for that would mean it is immutable: whereas nothing in this world is or can be immutable. [ 13 ]
[35]: 247-248 The free will theorem of John H. Conway and Simon B. Kochen further establishes that if we have free will, then quantum particles also possess free will. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] This means that starting from the assumption that humans have free will, it is possible to pinpoint the origin of their free will in the quantum particles that ...
Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness (French: Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience) is Henri Bergson's doctoral thesis ...