Won microscopic irreversibility and non-deterministic chaos: Resolving the conflict between determinism and free will

Integral Biomathics: Tracing the Road to Reality

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 227-243

  Hong, Felix T ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Determinism; Free will; Microscopic Reversibility; Nondeterministic Chaos

Indexed keywords

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING; DETERMINISM; DETERMINISTIC CHAOS; FREE WILL; MICROSCOPIC REVERSIBILITY; NEWTONIAN MECHANICS; SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS; TWO DIRECTIONS;

MECHANICS;

EID: 84884986130     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-28111-2     Document Type: Chapter

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