Physics is now complete.

No mention in the article about determinism, but the details are here. 

Comments

[Eddy Nahmias]

And, on a different note, Hollywood plans another movie about free will, but this one looks like it will be much funnier than Minority Report:
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/01/zach_galifianakis_to_grant_pau.html

[Michael Drake]

Did they discover the intrinsic phenomenal properties?

[Bob Doyle]

Hi Manuel,

For the record, Sukekatsu Ushioda is a provocative and popular physics professor who studied at Dartmouth and Penn and spent 25 years in the U.S. He went back to Japan to shake up their university systems. He likes the "wild and crazy" ideas and attitudes of American scientists. He says being wild and crazy may be related to being creative. He's right. This is the essence of my free will model, as you know.

Here is a link to an interview with Ushioda.
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As to determinism in physics, I assume you mean pre-determinism and not the adequate determinism we have for macroscopic objects.

Astrophysicist Arthur Stanley Eddington claimed in 1928 that quantum indeterminacy marked the end of strict physical determinism. Writing up his Gifford Lectures of 1927, Eddington announced "It is a consequence of the advent of the quantum theory that physics is no longer pledged to a scheme of deterministic law."

Determinism has been "expelled from present-day physics," he declared, so that "it is no longer necessary to suppose that human actions are completely predetermined."

He went even farther and enthusiastically identified indeterminism with freedom of the will, but Eddington had no specific model and he was roundly criticized by his philosopher contemporaries who said that his indeterminism would made our actions random.
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The standard argument against libertarian free will claims that free will cannot be reconciled with (pre)determinism or with indeterminism. If the former, we are not free. If the latter, our actions are random and thus not willed by us.

But David Hume successfully reconciled freedom (and liberty) with determinism to give us freedom of action.

More importantly, R.E.Hobart reconciled free will with determination to give us freedom of the will.

On the indeterminism side, twelve philosophers and scientists, starting with William James in 1884, have reconciled free will with indeterminism (and with an adequate determinism).

We now have a model for the physics and biology of free will.

It explains human creativity and the creativity of evolution.

A similar cosmic process accounts for the creation of information structures in the universe, from galaxies to stars and planets.

Indeterminism guarantees that the future is open. There are genuine ambiguous futures that you and I get to choose.

Physics itself is open, and thus unlikely ever to be "complete," as the tongue in your cheek suggests you realize.