Physical microscopic free-choice model in the framework of a Darwinian approach to quantum mechanics. (English) Zbl 1371.81018
Summary: A compatibilistic model of free choice for a fundamental particle is built within a general framework that explores the possibility that quantum mechanics be the emergent result of generalised Darwinian evolution acting on the abstract landscape of possible physical theories. The central element in this approach is a probabilistic classical Turing machine – basically an information processor plus a randomiser – methodologically associated with every fundamental particle. In this scheme every system acts not under a general law, but as a consequence of the command of a particular, evolved algorithm. This evolved programme enables the particle to algorithmically anticipate possible future world configurations in information space, and as a consequence, without altering the natural forward causal order in physical space, to incorporate elements to the decision making procedure that are neither purely random nor strictly in the past, but in a possible future.
MSC:
| 81P05 | General and philosophical questions in quantum theory |
| 03D28 | Other Turing degree structures |
| 03D32 | Algorithmic randomness and dimension |
| 00A79 | Physics |
Keywords:
free will theorem; quantum mechanical foundations; generalised Darwinism; information theoryReferences:
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