Suarez Abstract

Does Free Will Require New Physics?

Human free will is capable of controlling the body’s behavior from outside spacetime, but incapable of changing the past. I argue that the brain may allow quantum nonlocality without entanglement and, thereby provide a convenient interface for free will and consciousness. Additionally I stress that if one accepts human free will, then quantum experiments demonstrate that there is conscious free will on the part of nature outside human brains as well. This is a fascinating challenge, and answering it may require more new philosophy than new physics.