If you want to explain free will by entanglement then I would say free will is
the opposite - a kind of un-entanglement or emergence.A biological system which
grows while learning a language is an entangled system where two systems are
merged into one, both entangled in the same structures. It is based on
different codes stored in the same substance.Then you start to untangle them -
for instance by self-consciousness - and get the biological animal on the one
hand and the ghost in the machine on the other hand. A free will which is
neither trapped by biological needs nor by advertising, brands and marketing
would be the essence of a ghost in the machine, right? Although ghost buster
Gilbert Ryle says such thing does not exist.-J.
-------- Original message --------From: Marcus Daniels <[email protected]>
Date: 6/9/25 6:19 PM (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity
Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Free will—ghost in the
machine or just clever wiring? Here’s an idea that’s been helping me to
procrastinate. 1. Suppose that spacetime is an embedding of entanglement. An
evolved quantum error correcting code (QEC) that enables a network to form
geometries like the reality we see. 2. Suppose the Big Bang the result of a
unifying supermassive black hole. 3. Like other black holes, it had high
entropy. 4. That final black hole, lacking an exterior, launches a new
universe. 5. The new universe might appear to be smooth in its geometric
expansion, but that would only because of the embedded QEC. It would be rich
with unseen entanglement that was not subject to the QEC. 6. In this view,
universes could evolve or even be nested. Universes with no or crude QECs
would be unstable and prone to collapse. Universes with strong QECs could have
orderly environments where life could emerge, as Eric describes in his book.7.
A Big Crunch would be like checkpointing a virtual machine. The evolved QECs
could still be in the checkpoint and cause the next version of the universe to
inherit its desirable properties. Maybe it would be like a junkyard with some
interesting parts that would find novel uses in the next go.8. Speculating
further, very sophisticated civilizations (after billions of years) might
discover how to stack the deck to invent new metaphysics at the next Big Bang.
Simple beings, like humans – not being billions of years old -- might invent
words for that like God. 9. The whole thing could be deterministic and not
facilitate any free will!Now I should get back to work. From: Friam
<[email protected]> on behalf of Pieter Steenekamp
<[email protected]>Date: Sunday, June 8, 2025 at 10:38 PMTo: The
Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]>Subject:
[FRIAM] Free will—ghost in the machine or just clever wiring?Seth Lloyd’s
Turing test for free will
(https://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/scientists/lloyd/Turing_Test.pdf)
is to consciousness what EPR was to quantum physics: a challenge to the
theory's completeness. EPR said quantum weirdness must hide something deeper;
Bell said “let's test that”—and nature replied, “nope, it’s weird all the way
down.” Nobel Prize, case closed.Lloyd asks: can we prove the mind is just
machinery? His test says: build a machine that behaves indistinguishably from a
human and believes it has free will. If you succeed—great. But failure proves
nothing.Unlike Bell’s inequality, this test can only confirm, never deny. No
ghost-busting here.Until then? It’s speculation. The Standard Model explains
almost everything—except the quantum gremlins and how observation messes things
up. So maybe the mind still has an ace up its sleeve. Or a soul. Or a bug in
the code.
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