Maxwell’s Demon and Baron Munchausen: Free Will as a Perpetuum Mobile

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 30 (3):347-372 (1998)
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This paper argues that the idea of a Maxwellian Demon presupposes a notion of non-physical free will. The author has changed her mind in this point later on and now thinks that Mawellian Demons are compatible with mechanics; see her paper on this from 2010 and book from 2012.

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10.1016/s1355-2198(99)00014-3

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