arXiv 0905.46412009-05-28quant-ph

What Does the Free Will Theorem Actually Prove?

Sheldon Goldstein, Daniel V. Tausk, Roderich Tumulka, Nino Zanghi

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发表信息：: Notices of the American Mathematical Society 57(11): 1451-1453 (2010)

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Conway and Kochen have presented a "free will theorem" (Notices of the AMS 56, pgs. 226-232 (2009)) which they claim shows that "if indeed we humans have free will, then [so do] elementary particles." In a more precise fashion, they claim it shows that for certain quantum experiments in which the experimenters can choose between several options, no deterministic or stochastic model can account for the observed outcomes without violating a condition "MIN" motivated by relativistic symmetry. We point out that for stochastic models this conclusion is not correct, while for deterministic models it is not new.

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