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#521 - Sabine Hossenfelder - Life's Mysteries, Explained By Physics

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What About Physics Relationship to Free Will?

Would you ever actually be able to know if you'd created one in that case? Well, that's a good question. You have to think about some observables that would be related to it. Unfortunately, it would look pretty much like a tiny black hole. So it might be very difficult to turn apart. But I should probably add, this is not something we're going to do in the next 1000 or maybe 1000 years. It would require to put a macroscopic size of material into a particular quantum state where that kind of stuff could happen. So it's theoretically possible. There's nothing in principle that stands in the way of one day doing it. But it's certainly not

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