<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Aug 28, 2010, at 1:35 AM, Jeff Davis wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Quantum Entanglement Can be a Measure of Free Will<br><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25665/?nlid=3434">http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25665/?nlid=3434</a></div></blockquote><div><p><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote></p></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><p><blockquote type="cite">if there is any information shared by the experimenters and the
particles they are to measure, then entanglement can be explained by
some kind of hidden process that is deterministic. In practical terms, this means that there can be no shared
information between the random number generators that determine the
parameters of the experiments to be made, and the particles to be
measured. </blockquote></p><div></div></div></blockquote><div><div>In other words everything happens because of cause and effect or it doesn't.</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">But the same also holds true for the experimenters themselves. </blockquote></blockquote><br></div><div>The experimenters are something so it's not very surprising that the above is true.</div><div><br></div><div></div></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div></div></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div>It means there can be no information shared between them and the
particles to be measured either. In other words, they must have
completely free will. </div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>In other words everything happens because of cause and effect or it doesn't.</div></div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Free will never looked so fascinating.</blockquote></blockquote><br></div><div>I don't think "fascinating" adequately sums up what it is, much better would be "free will is an idea so bad it's not even wrong".</div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div> </div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></blockquote></blockquote></body></html>