Is Bohmian Mechanics Incompatible with Free Will and the Creation of Art?

[zenith8]

I agree with everything KenG says, and his ability to post such detailed analysis (many times) should merit a 'Science Advisor' rating.

Well done, Ken - you beat me. Would you prefer nuts or a cigar?

 

[unusualname]

Well done, Ken - you beat me. Would you prefer nuts or a cigar?

zenith8, you're really being strange, your posts (over a couple of years) have been enlightening, educational, why this silliness now?

 

[Ken G]

Well done, Ken - you beat me. Would you prefer nuts or a cigar?

Nuts please, cigars scare me!

 

[Gold Barz]

I agree with everything KenG says, and his ability to post such detailed analysis (many times) should merit a 'Science Advisor' rating.

I agree, now how do we go on about making it happen?

 

[mitchell porter]

Actually that's probably a good basis for a "proof" that BM is wrong since Shakespeare used free-will to write Hamlet, which doesn't exist in bohmian world

Unless of course you can show me Hamlet evolving in the Bohmian deterministic equations

I don't know if you're serious about this at all, but do you really think that a deterministic explanation of Hamlet's creation couldn't be produced? It is a linguistic object. It conforms to the syntactic rules of English, and it has a conceptual content expressed according to the semantics of English. It's a reworking of an older story, by someone in the new cultural and historical context of the 1600s. The intent to produce such a reworking was produced by the desires and circumstances of the author. The reworking itself was produced by the cognitive processes of the author, harnessed towards this goal.