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23 - Does Physics Allow for Free Will?

Why This Universe?

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The Importance of Free Will in the Universe

In the sixties, physicist Eugene Vigner had an idea about how quantum mechanics worked that could maybe introduce some free will into the universe. I personally find this to be pretty far-fetched; there's no evidence for it. In a world with libertarian free will in the universe, there'd be huge weight of moral culpability.

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