• SmoothOperator@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    First of all, that’s not yet completely clear - we hardly have a complete accounting of all biological processes. But it is true that the processes we have accounted for so far are classical.

    Second of all, quantum non-determinism still influences classical processes, especially chaotic ones where small shifts in initial conditions have a great effect on the long term outcome. See e.g. the weather, which is an entirely classical phenomenon, but where quantum fluctuations create a floor for how far into the future you can predict the weather even with perfect information and infinite computing power.

    So quantum non-determinism allows for classical non-determinism.

    • captcha@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
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      7 days ago

      Besides, you can just rely on a quantum random in everyday decisions, thus being truly random

      But yeah, there might be proceses not yet accounted for