Guest guest Posted July 15, 1999 Report Share Posted July 15, 1999 Another interesting thead worth developing? 15 July 1999 11:57 Re: [studycircle] Will-Is it free? Sue wrote: > You're right - what's the use of this cosmic joke. It > would be like having a chess match written in a book and we simply read the > moves as we follow them on a board. RABINDER or other physicists on this list PLEASE respond!!!! Referring to quantum mechanics and Schrodinger's cat-in-the-box etc, it brings us to a world of partial predestination (earlier events) and infinite possibilities. Could you relate this to the topic of free will and predestiny in detail? It would be very informative to hear physics' point of view. Warmest regards, Ruben -------- Response from Vivekananda Centre Hi Ruben You may post this to your list. Almost every scientist will agree that Quantum Mechanics is the cutting edge of Physics - the ideas it throws up are most unique! We have a situation which does not have any conceptual parallels with Greek thoughts which formed the foundation of Science upto now. Quantum Mechanics throws up ideas like -- the physical universe and everything in it is probabilistic at best. -- elementary particles behave as waves or particles depending on the observer. -- the world is superimposition of various states of existence! Ya and Na combined!!! -- this probabilistic world is not due to limitations of our instruments - This is the very -- -- Nature of nature. The conceptual leap that is necessary to understand these ideas is not present in the Greek thought. Science will be able to make this conceptual leap when it turns to the ideas presented in ancient philosophies like Samkhya Darshan of Kapila. I am presenting a Physicists point of view. I leave it to your list to see how this can translate to the idea of 'free will' ?? (If you like I will quote something from Sri Ramakrishna's teachings regarding free-will in future posting). jay Vivekananda Centre London http://www.btinternet.com/~vivekananda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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