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Ep. 13 - On the Freedom of Thought and Nature: Freeman Dyson and Stephen Blackwood

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The Nature of Things Is Non-Reductive

Is it safe to say that the nature of things is both non-reductive and inherently free? Yes. But I'd like to look at it from a point of view of physics, which is where I'm at home. So the universe has this two-level structure. And they are both true in, I mean, the word 'true' also is very ambiguous. Both the two layers are true or both real, whatever you like to call it. But you can't see them at the same time.

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