http://healthland.time.com/2012/09/04/making-choices-how-your-brain-decides/

Some reading on neuroscience discussing the more ‘top-down’ look at brain functions during decision making. The gulf between the regions of the brain responsible for function (top-down) and the individual neurons and biochemistry that determines what the neural networking is going to end up forming at the large scale (bottom-up) is so vast that to argue that determinism makes your choices meaningless is trite.

The concept of free-will evolved in philosophy before the brain was valued for what it is, an incredibly complex machine. To say it does not determine what you do physically avoids the fact that without your brain you physically do not have the machinery to create your thoughts and actions. You are your brain.

AND this a theological non-issue as most interpretations of metaphysical existence in Christianity, the only people that seem to argue about this ill-defined concept of free-will, actually require your physical body to become immortal and join with your spirit in any possible afterlife to be a complete entity. The idea of infinity coming into the equation probably has to do with the idea of eternity, that is we are 3D beings in a 4D world (moving through a dimension of time), eternal beings see all possible 4D worlds and thus we have ‘free-will’ to choose our actions that collapse this world into one of those possible 4D outcomes, which are infinite. You cannot know which universe you live in until you act and observe.

Brains do this too, neuron clusters both promote their own pattern of firing and inhibit opposing patterns of firing. Whichever cluster is reinforced the most, by learned imprints, say pleasure makes one decision more likely, and pain makes that pattern for the decision less likely. The pleasure response is usually what you choose. Unless your higher brain functions have reflected on the consequences and override pleasure in favor of pain for some reason, like unpleasant activity that leads to long term pleasure, like exercising is unpleasant, but the higher brain predicted that in the future you would be stronger or more attractive for the effort, which is a pleasurable thought.

Thus an incredibly complex serious of yes-no-yes-no-yes-no arguments in the brain get made until the final decision is either yes or no, but that outcome is deterministic based on trillions of these interactions, what you ate this morning that fueled strong chemical synergy in one or the other neuron clusters, your memories etc.

However since we have no idea how quantum mechanics interacts in the process of brain chemistry, and since we really don’t know what’s actually going on with the observer effect, we really can’t say much in terms of consciousness.

So, this is one gigantic exercise in futility.

Here’s some of the shit I’m laughing about that comes from people like you:

http://knol.google.com/k/einstein-was-wrong-falsifying-observational-evidence-presented# 

You don’t know anything about math and physics and are right now the laughing stock of the physics department here. Read a fucking book.

My argument is simply that if you chose a specific time in the future, then you are not at the limit of infinity.  If time runs on into infinity, then choosing the furthest point in time into the future is impossible because such a point never exists.  As soon as you pick a specific time to reference, time has extended beyond that time making it impossible to ever chose the farthest point into the future.

2.  I don’t believe QM is a correct theory, I’m simply pointing out what the standard theory says about the physical universe.  Clearly QM could be wrong.  I highly doubt quantum gravity theory will solve anything.  Physicists don’t even understand why matter should “bend space” in the first place.  

Here’s a tip for you:  Space doesn’t bend.  Space is nothing.  Nothing can not bend.  Space is a void in which matter occupies.  Space does not have physical properties that can act upon matter.

Why so quick to dismiss determinism?  Because it is fucking retarded, that’s why.  If you want to run around believing that you don’t actually have free will be my guest.  Answer me this oh wise one, if I don’t have free will, and you don’t have free will, how is it possible that the random chemical interactions in our brains just happen to make this interaction between our two minds possible?

1. You clearly do not understand the concept of infinity. There are an infinite number of integers. By your logic the number 3 does not exist? Just because a piece of something is infinitely small does not make it non-existent. For example, lets say you have to randomly pick a real number between 0 and 1. There are an uncountable infinite number of real numbers between 0 and 1. The probability to pick any one of them is zero, yet they sum to 1. Just because the probability of, say, 0.01235 being picked is zero does not mean it doesn’t exist.

2. QM, or rather QFT, is an incomplete theory. Some physicists/mathematicians, Roger Penrose for example, believe that a quantum theory of gravity will explain the measurement problem.

Furthermore, why so quick to dismiss determinism? I can’t see how the world would be any different for a truly free or deterministic observer. How can you tell the difference between free will and the illusion of free will?