Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Do Elementary Particles Have Free Will?

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=2203
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~jas/one/freewill-theorem.html
http://press.princeton.edu/blog/2009/03/23/the-free-will-theorem/
http://press.princeton.edu/blog/2009/04/27/the-free-will-theorem-lectures-tonight-8-pm-princeton-university-5/
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{The gist of it is this: They say they have proved that if humans have free will, then elementary particles -- like atoms and electrons -- possess free will as well.}
from
High-powered mathematicians take on free will
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S23/69/84A24/index.xml?section=announcements
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Terence_McKenna had a fascinating concept of what he referred to as, Machine_Elves. These objects of consciousness could range in size from a basketball, down to a Buckyball & even much smaller & larger. Another version of the Machine Elves concept can be seen in, The_Last_Mimzy movie.