Billy T,
OK, I read your personal data, and you are a PHD physicist. I will answer your questions point for point, since you communicate in this fashion. First of all, try to accomodate the communication styles of others. If you want answers, then you need to be able to listen. For example, you assume I am out of your realm because I said QM stands for quality manager in my lingo. This is just semantics, no big deal (by the way
statistics is THE central science for quality professionals). We understand how random events (noise) causes problems in the execution of a plan. With that said, may I take point for point.
I don't want to pass any judgement on your skill or experience with QM, but your assumption that QM stood for quality manager, caused me to think that perhaps you did not know anything about physics and QM.
Again, if you used the words "fatalism" or "determinism" we would be on the same page. Instead you chose quantum mechanics -- not in my dictionary as a philosophy. The discussion is a semantical argument . You are from Brazil, Is english your native language? I will try to make an allowance.
1) If QM did not exist, i.e. if the universe were as LaPlace thought, completely deterministic, so that the smallest detail 1000 thousand years for now is already determined (but unknown and unpredictible becauces we lack commplete knowledge about the current state of every atom in the universe etc.) would you agree that free will is impossible?
Yes, I came to that same conclusion as a six year old boy, though I did not look at the atomic level, and I went further -- even if we did have all the knowledge we would not have free will -- this is fatalism. Even if we could go back in time and change what was done in the past, we still would not have free will, because who is to say the new paradigm wasn't predestined to start with, and I was allowed as an agent of change to make the "intended reality" actually take place. I got to play "God" as it were, and yet I had no free will. I no longer hold this belief system that started when I was six years old.
2) You did not respond in any sensible way to my prior post asking if beauty in music was absolute, or "in the ear of the listener" as I put it in that post.
Beauty is in the "soul" of the listener. I thought I made that point clear. Animals have a soul, but it is not the same as a human soul. If you look up the word "soul" in the dictionary, as I originally presented to you, I am being consistent. Like or dislike of a given music is a "soul" issue, and a life's experience issue. For example you might like madonna, but you probably wouldn't want to hear it at your parent's funeral. Again, I gave you this information.
3a) If "yes, it is absolute." Do you think beauty in musics is only possible as a gift of God, and thus "proves" his existance? (A lot of us agnostic are waiting on your reply to this one.)
Yes music is an absolute, It is designed to evoke responses from the soul. Whether or not you like a given song shows where your soul stands. This does not prove the God of christianity, it only proves that a soul exists as defined in the dictionary.
4) Finally, you are also ignoring my direct quetion about the uniqueness of Earth in God's plans. Do you think there are many life forms on many other planets, each with free will? Will I get to met some in hell someday or does each go to its own exclusive heaven or hell? - Yes I know that is two question in one -I'll go straight to hell.(God just told me so - serious violation of the his latest modifications of CP "Laws.
There could be life on other planets, I don't know. I believe that God has a "permissive will" and an "absolute will." Those people that can not fit within these boundaries end up in Hell. Those that will fit in the boundaries end up with God in heaven. God can change his paradigm to accomodate His permissive will. Permissive will is influenced by the wants and needs of humans. Hence, christians pray to God for his assistance.
I hope this answers your questions.