Hello Dr. Greene, listened to your latest book via Audible. Definitely some great nuggets in there. I have two questions. 1. Can a particle tunnel through an avoided crossing? 2. How do you reconcile natural selection and determinism? In natural selection the environment chooses the features an organism retains provided those features promote fitness and the choice between features hasn't been predetermined. In determinism, all processes are caused by initial conditions (from the big bang). In a purely deterministic universe, isn't what we call natural selection actually the illusion of natural selection similar to the illusion of free will? The environment makes no free choice between traits; the traits that persist do so because initial conditions determined that they would so. Am I missing something?
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Hello Dr. Greene, listened to your latest book via Audible. Definitely some great nuggets in there. I have two questions. 1. Can a particle tunnel through an avoided crossing? 2. How do you reconcile natural selection and determinism? In natural selection the environment chooses the features an organism retains provided those features promote fitness and the choice between features hasn't been predetermined. In determinism, all processes are caused by initial conditions (from the big bang). In a purely deterministic universe, isn't what we call natural selection actually the illusion of natural selection similar to the illusion of free will? The environment makes no free choice between traits; the traits that persist do so because initial conditions determined that they would so. Am I missing something?
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