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- Embed this noticeconsider the hypothetical schrödinger's cat in the box with radioactive decay-activated poison. you open the box and find the cat dead. was its death determined by past events or by random choice? (or both)
now consider that there are radioactive elements that are important for the functioning of the brain, and that their decay may cause neurons to fire or to misfire, potentially influencing macroscopic decisions. how could those macroscopic decisions be considered deterministic, if they follow from truly random events? don't you see the discontinuity in the chain of determinism there? not that the decision doesn't follow from the random event, but that the random event itself doesn't follow from past events.