[mongol]

Sounds like Dyson believed in, or hoped for, free will, in that mind would affect the randomness that quantum physics involves. I think it would be great if it was so because the alternative would be that we are just machines. But I fear that the mind does not have that type of influence on it's fundamental parts...

[alexpetralia]

Though I could be wrong, I believe his point was that consciousness - the mind - is the randomness underlying quantum physics.

[jackcosgrove]

If the brain cannot consciously reprogram itself, why does studying work?