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Let's also think about Quantum Mechanics. It says the world is non-deterministic. A photon basically has FREE WILL to decide which slit it goes through in the double-slit experiment.

The Laws of Physics cannot dictate whether Schrodinger's cat dies because an atomic reaction happens, only that there is a specific probability for that happening.

So if the world is not deterministic neither are human brains. Physics cannot dictate what the brains think, it can only dictate what the probabilities for some neuron pathways opening or closing are.



A better example than the double-slit experiment might be: you observe a single free neutron. Exactly when will it decay?


Exactly.




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