Re: The first scientific proof of free will (based on Conway & Kochen)

Thus spake cfstrom@xxxxxxxxxxx
On May 6, 5:04 pm, Oh No <N...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"I do not know a great deal about quantum computation, but in the
instances of the few algorithms which I have seen described, this is
false. The essential feature is that while intermediate states may be
indeterminate, the resulting state is not."

Hi, this earlier paper by Castagnoli et al. says on page 8 "As we
will see, in
quantum computation the definition of a solution is non-sequential and
the corresponding
physical determination is non-dynamical in character."

The authors show this mathematically, and thus I would argue that if
quantum computation is "non-sequential" then it is non-deterministic.

You would argue incorrectly. In a quantum computer the process does not
need to go through a set sequence to produce a set result, and is
certainly not dynamical in any classical sense, but the result can still
be determinate.

Regards

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