Why is quantum mechanics, why
would it change the picture?
It changes the picture
because in classical physics,
everything is strictly
deterministic.
It ultimately does
not matter how
the robot or how a
creature feels, let's say.
Everything would develop,
evolve exactly the same way.
Whether the participants
feel miserable or great
along the way, it
doesn't matter.
It's a deterministic system.
Nothing changes.
And I'll tell you, one
of the two explanation
pathways how this correlation
could come about is free will.
But you need some element
of non-determinism.
And quantum mechanics
gives you this.
Essentially, when we
run the quantum circuit
and we measure
the output, then--
and if you ask the
question, why did we
just see this sequence of
zeros and ones, the output
of our quantum circuit?
The answer is
nobody can tell you.
There's no answer to this.
The best that
science has to offer
is textbook quantum mechanics
that would say, oh, no.
You saw this because you--
or you measured this
output because it's
a sample of a probability
distribution encoded
in the quantum state that is
the output of your circuit.
So essentially, this--
I feel these things, that this
non-determinism that quantum
processes can offer you
are essential for free
will to come in, and
for to break this,
is that there is a difference
between whether it feels
good for the
participating system
or it feels bad for the
participating system.
