The universe is probably indeterministic, in that quantum mechanics has true randomness. Or put it another way, the Heisenberg uncertainty in a quantum atom is truly randomness, rather than uncertainty. So yeah, our universe is almost certainly not deterministic, and thus you don’t need to update your ontology.
Well, either randomness is inherent in everything, in which case there is nothing agenty about it, or agents have some special kind of randomness, which does not mesh with our current understanding of physics at all.
See footnote 3: “Quantum mechanics only shifts us from the state of the world being deterministic, to the probability distribution being deterministic. It doesn’t provide scope for free will, so it doesn’t avoid the ontological shift.”
The universe is probably indeterministic, in that quantum mechanics has true randomness. Or put it another way, the Heisenberg uncertainty in a quantum atom is truly randomness, rather than uncertainty. So yeah, our universe is almost certainly not deterministic, and thus you don’t need to update your ontology.
Randomness does not save you in this case, since it’s low-level and not agent-driven.
Unless agents are randomness driven.
Well, either randomness is inherent in everything, in which case there is nothing agenty about it, or agents have some special kind of randomness, which does not mesh with our current understanding of physics at all.
Or free agents blend randomness and determinisn in a particular way.
See footnote 3: “Quantum mechanics only shifts us from the state of the world being deterministic, to the probability distribution being deterministic. It doesn’t provide scope for free will, so it doesn’t avoid the ontological shift.”