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Free Will with Afterthoughts: A Quasichemical Model

Author(s) -

A.C. Levi

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

journal of theoretical chemistry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2356-7686

pISSN - 2314-6184

DOI - 10.1155/2013/902423

Subject(s) - computer science , distribution (mathematics) , preference , similarity (geometry) , point (geometry) , algorithm , artificial intelligence , mathematics , statistics , geometry , mathematical analysis , image (mathematics)

A model of free will is proposed, appealing to the similarity with simple, two-body chemical reactions where the energy curves for the reagents and for the products cross. The system at the crossing point has a freedom of choice to perform the reaction or not. The Landau-Zener formula, corresponding to the opportunity of meeting twice the crossing point, is interpreted as free will with an afterthought and generalized to the cases when a subject thinks about a choice n times. If the probability distribution pn of afterthoughts is known, the probability of a final yes decision is given. The results are generalized to situations where a preference for or against a change exists or where the freedom is only partial, has to fight with conditioning factors, and possibly decreases with increasing instances of free choice

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