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Mantus, you are correct in all that you have said, and quantum uncertainty is often mentioned with reference to free will...my question is WHY?
If you are of the opinion that "as we live in a deterministic world, we cannot have free will", does throwing in a bit of RANDOMNESS really help give you free will? After all, "you" can have no conscious input on what the result of a quantum wave collapse will be...it is of course...random!
Free will based on uncontrollable random events doesn't sound much like free will to me!
Besides, the vast majority of scientists believe that quantum uncertainty does not play a role in the brain's operation. As far as neuroscience is concerned, individual neurons behave predictably and deterministically. This is not however a rigorously proven fact. It is always remains a possibility that quantum effects are involved, but the current scientific thinking is that they don't.
There are plenty of pseudo-scientists who are derrogatorily termed "quantum mystics" who like putting forward quantum-magical theories of the mind. This have been thoroughly debunked where necessarry and are not taken in any way seriously by the scientific community.
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