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Originally Posted by Dent
If you are going to take a snapshot of anything if its not at a quantum level it's useless.
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I'm not going to pretend I know anything about quantum physics and I don't care enough about it to ever spend the time to learn about it further than reading a wikipedia article.
From what i understand, currently we can only define the laws that govern really small, medium size, and really big things by using a separate set of rules for each.
I perceive the medium size realm. I don't really care about the quantum one. With no knowledge of how the quantum mechanics work, I can make sense of the world around me and have become pretty good predicting things that are the sum of very small things that I don't even consider. I don't need quantum mechanics to understand how a wheel works.
A neuron, although small, is part of the medium realm and is no where near as small as an electron. A neuron is more complex than a wheel but I think you overestimate it's complexity if you think you need to know it's quantum state to infer its "medium" state.
Maybe the word "particle" got thrown in somewhere and that's why we are not talking about the same thing. In any case I agree, lets get back to free will if possible instead of arguing about the logistics of my hypothetical thought experiment.
It like arguing a turing machine isn't possible because their is no such thing as infinitely long tape.