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23 - Does Physics Allow for Free Will?

Why This Universe?

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The Problem With Free Will

Members have rejected forcefully the idea that we might not have free will. So let's pick up where Laplace left off and say, okay, so Laplace's vision of Newtonian physics doesn't seem to allow for something that we would call libertarian free will. Maybe other kinds of physics that we've discovered more recently open up those doors to at least a little bits of free will here and there.

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