Originally Posted by AlericB

Interesting chat. I think it has relevance for addiction because quantum mechanics makes consciousness a basic, rather than an unexpected, feature of ultimate that has a causal effect on the physical world. This is unlike classical physics which takes a mechanistic, clockwork view of the world. It also establishes probability as more fundamental than determinism and this supports, or least does not rule out, a view of the world which is open to creative human possibilities.