Parallel Presentiment Tests Can Verify the Effectiveness of Our Free-Choices.

What is it about?

Using recent quantum understanding of the presentiment effect`s existence, I argue that by comparing two simultaneous naively “similar” presentiment tests on a single individual one can perform both an experiment and its "counterfactual" experiment and empirically check our free-choice`s effectiveness.

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Why is it important?

1) Our capability to choose a question freely and pose it to nature at any preferred moment is a fundamental presumption in advancing science. However, the superdeterminism prejudice recently advocated by some scientists seems to be in conflict with this presumption. Indeed, our inability to rewind time and then repeat an experiment under counter conditions lets suspicions about the genuineness of the effectiveness of our free-choice capability stay, rendering the issue a philosophical one. In this article I use a recent understanding of the presentiment effect`s existence, a quantum mechanics understanding, to overcome the aforementioned "rewinding time" obstacle and suggest a feasible experiment to empirically answer this very basic enduring question. 2) The suggested experiment may improve our understanding of the surprising, yet empirically confirmed, presentiment effect; How can it empirically appear as if our bodies predict unpredictable events. 3) The aforementioned quantum mechanics understanding of the presentiment effect`s existence relies on the orthodox interpretation for quantum mechanics in which consciousness plays a crucial part. A century after the discovery of quantum mechanics the "measurement problem" of this theory has no generally agreed upon resolution. Multitude interpretations coexist. There are recent psychological results that show that indeed our consciousness should play an important role in the solution. This paper`s suggested experiment may further enhance our understanding of this role.

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