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525. Sabine Hossenfelder, author of Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

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Is There a Cause or a Determinism?

Even if you couldn't predict what the microscopic object was, or character, whatever, was going to do from the behaviour of the particles, wouldn't all the input still be causal? We don't live in this universe. One possibility that i've pulled out of a hat at some point, like ten years ago or something, is that you can have a kind of an information reservoir that doesn't reside inside of time. So basically, every one you eve, every time you come on, you come to a branching point, you ar, you pull on this reservoir outside of time to make your decision. And that would not be a determined by the past, because it's not, it

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