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#77 – Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is the Universe Deterministic or Is There a Free Will?

The new series begins with the use of quantum computers to simulate basic living organisms or actually I don't know if it's quantum computers they use but basic living organisms are simulated on a screen. So returning to our discussion of simulation or thinking of the universe as a computer do you think the universe is deterministic is there a free will? "I see absolutely I cannot see how free will fits into that" he says.

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