Re:Bad Philosophy and Questionable Physics (Score 1)

First of all, quantum mechanics has absolutely nothing to do with free will. Free will, if understood properly, is a moral property of human agents. And whether someone is responsible for his actions has nothing to do with our final understanding of subatomic physics.

I understand your point, but I don't think that's quite true. Certainly free will is related to morals, and whether someone is responsible for their actions is important to the question of whether their actions are good. However, free will is essentially a metaphysical concept, regardless of what it means to the value theorists. The question of whether we are free to make choices is a question of the nature our world.

Also, I think is a rather bold statement to say that quantum mechanics has "absolutely nothing" to do with free will. If the universe is deterministic, then everything we do simply follows from the state of our brains at any given moment, which follows from the state at the previous moment, and so on, so that every decision we make was essentially "decided" by the initial state of the universe when it began. What is given is an actual proof of this fact (actually the contrapositive of it, which logically equivalent). And while it may be based on a few axioms, these axioms have been shown to be true in 100% of observed cases. There is almost nothing that can be proven without taking something for granted anyway. Even if you deny their proof, it is obvious that free will and determinism (and therefore free will and quantum mechanics) have some relation.