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I can't help but recall two ideas which strongly influence my approach to man and his science. The one has already been mentioned: Man has had to develop the mathematic discipline of probability because of his finite limitations. Mankind has not yet attained sufficient knowledge and skill to describe all that goes on at the level of quantum physics as it applies to brain function. That our application of knowledge has lapped our ability to know has created the need to develop a method of predicting, or determining as accurately as possible, the most likely outcome, or, the discipline of probability. This dynamic in no manner establishes the concept of potentialities, or possibilities, or the probability that any one set of causal dynamics has any more than one possible effect. The second is the whole story of Brownian motion. The movement of pollen particles on the surface of water was deemed chaotic, another name for choice-riddled and nondeterministic, by the best scientists this world had to offer at the time. What is understood to be chaotic and nondeterministic today will be viewed as we now view Brownian motion, tomorrow.
That somehow, nondeterministic chaotic quantum physics behavior is a reasonable sanctuary for autonomous conscious choice is; here we go again; is wishful thinking, and deserving of a great deal of skepticism and a mountain of salt. If one must have a will of the mind, this is a will which is determined by the data processor and the data; the mechanical thinking capability of each individual brain and the amalgamated experience which is stored in that particular brain. Nothing comes from nothing. There are only reasons. Nothing changes if nothing changes. Wishes only come true if they are aligned with reality, and this is rarely the case. |
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