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If probabilistic outcomes are the same as having a free will, then elementary particles also have free will. That doesn't fit the intuitive fuzzy definition of free will.


That is exactly the point!

From the paper:

Some readers may object to our use of the term “free will” to describe the indeterminism of particle responses. Our provocative ascription of free will to elementary particles is deliberate, since our theorem asserts that if experimenters have a certain freedom, then particles have exactly the same kind of freedom. Indeed, it is natural to suppose that this latter freedom is the ultimate explanation of our own.




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