Free will theorem

The free will theorem of John H. Conway and Simon B. Kochen states that if we have a free will in the sense that our choices are not a function of the past, then, subject to certain assumptions, so must some elementary particles. Conway and Kochen's paper was published in Foundations of Physics in 2006.[1] In 2009, the authors published a stronger version of the theorem in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society.[2] Later, in 2017, Kochen elaborated some details.[3]

  1. ^ Conway, John; Simon Kochen (2006). "The Free Will Theorem". Foundations of Physics. 36 (10): 1441. arXiv:quant-ph/0604079. Bibcode:2006FoPh...36.1441C. doi:10.1007/s10701-006-9068-6. S2CID 12999337.
  2. ^ Conway, John H.; Simon Kochen (2009). "The strong free will theorem" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 56 (2): 226–232.
  3. ^ Kochen, Simon (2017). "Born's Rule, EPR, and the Free Will Theorem". arXiv:1710.00868 [quant-ph].