if so, does that mean we have no free will?

Cell just respond to their environment, but that does not mean we have free will.

You could take it back even further and say that all matter is just resounding to the beginning state of the universe.

Well, that's true unless you take into account quantum physics.

Truly, there is no such thing as free will in the multi-verse, but because the path of an electron is "random" there is such a thing as

random circumstance in each individual dimension.

Collapse those eigenstates, you tiny negatively-charged fuckers!

So, about individual cells... random shit will happen to them, so they are adrift in the sea of possibility like the rest of everything.

But unless they are networked together into a larger organism that has a nervous system to "decide" with, they have no free will.

You seem to be under the impression that the quantum universe effects the macro universe but their is no evidence for that as of yet.

same thing for a human

we die quickly with out earth.

We evolved to live on earth.

and the cells inside us evolved inside us.

I think saying that the quantum universe doesn't affect the macro universe is like creationists differentiating between micro and

macro evolution.

Not at all, I am confident the quantum does effect the macro but their is no evidence for it.

With evolution their are mountains of evidence.

I think the evidence pointing to the fact that you cannot record the location of an electron without changing it help with this argument.

How so? All I am saying is that as of this moment we as humans have not found a direct link for the quantum to the macro.

By recording the location of an electron, you collapse it's wave function, making it choose a particular position to inhabit.

Before it's recorded, the probability of it being in certain positions of it's orbit are equal.

It does not have a fixed position at any given time unless observed, which means that viewing it acts as a randomizing function.

This demonstrates that individual atoms in the universe are not "fixed" into any single course of action.

Does this translate into a "macro" world? How could it not? Everything is composed of atoms.

Not so, the way in witch you measure the atom is what effects it.

We can make some quantum events act in a certain way but we do not know if the quantum world effects the macro.

Or it might be better to say assuming that the quantum world effect the macro world we do not know how.

You can get strange effects when you do things like compress hydrogen in a tank. The orbits of the H electrons do funny things.

They actually settle into semi-stable orbits, like faux-ionic bonds when you press enough of them together. Liquid H is crazy stuff.

I guess I agree that there is no direct evidence that quantum changes affect the larger world...

But they are the effects of sub-atomic particles, which is what everything is made of, so thus part of the world.

I guess what I'm meaning to say is that I think there is an artificial barrier there.

I think it's just an unknown unknown as of right now.

Particle physics is awesome. It's a neat area where chemistry and physics interact.

It's like a Recces peanut butter cup.

Hey, you got your chemistry in my physics!