Thanks again for your comments. Now although I believe that the computer is a bad metaphor for the human brain, still the basic components of the brain are neurons, which are in essence binary units. Now free will is a hot topic with philosophers and actually most believe that the human brain is...
Thank you all for the very useful comments and suggested readings. I will try (with a lot of wikipedia consulting) to get through them. As a result of some of the comments I rephrased the thought experiment to make certain aspects hopefully less of an issue. As I am not really certain on how...
First of all I want to apologize for any incorrect/non-physical terminology. Theoretical physics is not my field (which is neuroscience) and I only have some very basic knowledge in the mathematics of modern physics. Recently I read a couple of popular physics books by Brain Greene and Leonard...