Hm, do you think advancements in the understanding of physics could

improve understanding on causality, determinism and free will?
(“Interpretations” of physics is not my expertise and I’m a bit
skeptical, but I’ll try to be careful not to get into mysticism…)
(Warning: disgusting) The common argument that collapsing superpositions
leads to inherent randomness and thus makes free will possible seems to
be misaligned with what people mean when discussing free will. I’ll
explain my skepticism with an analogy: A scientist will do something
differently if they detect that a radioactive sample decays in five
seconds. The scientist’s state and actions depend on random decay of the
sample, and I won’t call this free will of the scientist. I don’t think
there’s something fundamentally different about the supposed (and really
interpretive and perhaps mystic) collapse of superpositions in the brain
causing things to go differently, and my example on radioactive decay.
No matter if they’re inside or outside the body, truly random events are
still spontaneously random

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