>>12042405the opposite of determinism is necessarily free will even if its a bad term for it
i think the question is better posed as whether or not the universe is a closed system, and if it isnt what part of the universe can an external force affect it, and the process that we use to answer this question is posed AS the question of free will or determinism
a quick skimming of the paper seems like they propose its through some kind of non-random quantum unpredictability allows subatomic particles a route to make 'choices' independent of past events, making our universe a non-closed system
a determinist would then claim that they just follow some kind of pattern that we are unable to understand yet, or at all, and at this point the question may be unassailable as we are nested in a system that we are fundamentally unable to bring ourselves out of to continue the question of free will/determinism, this is analogous to godels incompleteness theorems, which asks the same question but in the domain of thought/mathematics which is more fundamental and which physics is a set of
