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by MattPalmer1086 624 days ago
Randomness does not give you free will, any more than determinism does.

What do you mean by free will?

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Exactly. If determinism is incompatible with somebody's personal meaning of free will, quantum dice rolls are hardly a solution. What they really need is to either find a religion or just shrug off philosophy and get on with their life, behaving as if they have free will even if they can't rationally justify it.
Quantum dice roll is _the free will_ in this context. So your free will is what sets the dice; as it is extraphysical, it will look like randomness in the physical world.
That's not quantum physics, that's just some sort of new-age religion. A new variation on the "brains are antenna for the soul" idea.