Title: Indeterminism
Headings: Indeterminism
Indeterminism
Content: The product of the position error and the momentum error is equal to a multiple of Planck's constant. Indeterminism is important for the question of free will because strict determinism implies just one possible future. Indeterminism means that the future is unpredictable. Indeterminism allows alternative futures and the question becomes how the one actual present is realized from these potential alternatives. The departure from strict causality is very slight compared to the miraculous ideas associated with the " causa sui " (self-caused cause) of the ancients. Despite David Hume 's critical attack on the necessity of causes, many philosophers embrace causality strongly. Some even connect it to the very possibility of logic and reason. Even in a world that contains quantum uncertainty, macroscopic objects are determined to an extraordinary degree. Newton's laws of motion are deterministic enough to send men to the moon and back. Our Cogito model of the Macro Mind is large enough to ignore quantum uncertainty for the purpose of the reasoning will.