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8.4.3. Local expansion: The light cone

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8. Quantum Mechanics

 

8.5. Determinism and Free-will

 

Activities in the smallest scale may not be observed, since observation itself is also based on strain packages that influence the observed package by transferring energy.

 

On the other hand, act of observation as a concept is completely different from the intrinsic consistency of physical reality, and they should not be confused with each other. Limitations in observation do not indicate that there is an indefiniteness or uncertainty in Nature as if Nature is lack of logical principles. Fundamental act of Nature is a constant and continuous expansion, whether compressed locally or not, and it is the direct consequence of logical principles (Section 4.3).

 

Fundamental tendency to expand (the expansion of space) is a complete and basic action of the Nature, and any portion of physical reality cannot be considered as independent from the whole. We have discussed before in various chapters that both strain packages affect the whole universe, and wholeness is affected from each strain that is formed on it. Consequently, this wholeness has another meaning too. It is not possible to isolate Schrödinger’s cat from physical reality by a box, not only practically but also theoretically, since physical reality is a complete continuum. Therefore, it is senseless to risk a cat’s life!

 

Newtonian classical mechanics suggested a deterministic universe, where all action in Nature occurs according to cause and effect. However, Newton’s mechanical laws of Nature conflict with free will, and the question free will has become the issue; do humans have the power or capacity to choose and act independently from external causes or the choice is a result of deterministic laws of Nature.

 

On the other hand, probability interpretation of quantum mechanics seems to suggest an indeterministic universe, as if the universe lacks of logical principles and it is governed by probability. Looseness of quantum mechanics might have been interpreted as a basis for human free will. In fact, this is a kind of strong anthropic principle, which assumes that the universe is created as an arena for human beings with free will.

 

This paper concludes just the opposite, and it objects to the possibility of a true free will for free human individuals. Firstly, Geometric Generalization is deterministic and unlike Newtonian Mechanics, it is unchaotic, since it regards the whole strain package itself as the basic constituent of physical reality, whose deformation is described by the wave function. Geometric Generalization suggests a concrete hidden principle for Nature’s mechanism (continuous expansion and intrinsic circulations in confinement volumes), which conflicts with the possibility of individual free will. Additionally, Geometric Generalization suggests that Nature is a complete and continuous wholeness, which refuses the existence of completely independent individuals (that are independent from the cause and effect) in physical reality.

 

In fact, the primary question is not related with the individuals’ free will. The question is, whether this structure of Nature and its logical principles let the wholeness of physical reality to have a complete will to choose its future. In fact, we have discussed that it is theoretically possible to affect Hubble’s constant within physical reality (Section 7.12). We will discuss these in Chapter 12 on “Self-organization, Consciousness, and Future of the Universe”. Eventually, let us note that if it is possible that such a global will exists in physical reality, then we may assume that we, individuals of the evolving human race, may possess fragments of the will.

 

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