BBC: Horizon - Consciousness and free will

[Slimebeast]

Final-Fan said:

Slimebeast said:

Rath said:

What slimebeast is saying is that it isn't random, it just appears random because we can't see what is causing it. Like how a coin flip appears random but is in fact if you look at the underlying details it is bound to end up one way from the moment it is flipped.

I disagree with him, but that is his what I think he is saying.

Correct.

Maybe all materia is made up of strings on the lowest level and there's 11 dimensions of spacetime, and events on that lowest level govern the behaviour of the particles on the atomic level.

What's your point?  I mean, if the randomness is coming from somewhere, what does it matter whether it's "ordinary" quantum theory or the nth dimension strings or the Flying Spaghetti Monster that is providing the apparent randomness seen in quantum particle behavior, for the purposes of this discussion?  

See my above post for details.   

Not much perhaps. I dont remember how we got into this.