论文标题
自由意志和量子力学：无所事事
Free Will and Quantum Mechanics: Much Ado about Nothing
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论文摘要
在最近的一系列论文和讲座中，约翰·康威（John Conway）和西蒙·科钦（Simon Kochen）提出了自由遗嘱定理。 “它大致断言，如果确实我们人类有自由意志，那么基本颗粒已经在这种有价值的商品中拥有自己的一小部分。”他们论文的主要动机也许是对他们确实做到的量子机械隐藏变量理论进行严格的限制。然而，自由意志的概念对于证明至关重要，他们甚至推测，对基本粒子提供的自由意志是我们自己自由意志的最终解释。我不会挑战他们证明的数学/逻辑，而是他们的前提。对我而言，自由意志和确定性并没有充分澄清，以形成理论证明的基础。此外，他们认为需要进一步解释的量子力学中的补充概念。我也不清楚自由意志定理提供的效用，即，什么（如果有的话）遵循什么。尽管我的论文中有厚脸皮的字幕，但我确实认为，将自由意志明确引入对隐藏变量的讨论和对量子力学的其他解释的讨论可能有助于在许多审议中揭示涉及货币。因此，我认为Conway-Kochen Free Will定理是对量子力学哲学的积极贡献。
In a recent series of papers and lectures, John Conway and Simon Kochen presented The Free Will Theorem. "It asserts, roughly, that if indeed we humans have free will, then elementary particles already have their own small share of this valuable commodity." Perhaps the primary motivation of their papers was to place stringent constraints on quantum mechanical hidden variable theories, which they indeed do. Nevertheless, the notion of free will is crucial to the proof and they even speculate that the free will afforded to elementary particles is the ultimate explanation of our own free will. I don't challenge the mathematics/logic of their proof but rather their premises. Free will and determinism are, for me, not nearly adequately clarified for them to form the bases of a theoretical proof. In addition, they take for granted supplemental concepts in quantum mechanics that are in need of further explanation. It's also not clear to me what utility is afforded by the free will theorem, i.e., what, if anything, follows from it. Despite the cheeky subtitle of my essay, I do think that the explicit introduction of free will into discussions of hidden variables and other interpretations of quantum mechanics might help expose foibles in many of those deliberations. For this reason, I consider the Conway-Kochen free will theorem to be a positive contribution to the philosophy of quantum mechanics.
