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#232 – Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, Big Bang, Aliens, Life, Death, and Meaning
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The End of the Free Will
The idea follows naturally from all that we've been talking about, let's make the assumption that all there is in the physical universe is stuff governed by laws. And when you then recognize it, every thought that we have, every action that we undertake is just the motion of particles. That leaves no opportunity for any kind of freedom to break free from the constraint of physical law. We are liberated from the limited behavioral repertoire of rocks and bottles of water, to have this broad spectrum of responses. Do we pick them, we do not? Do we freely choose them, we don't? But yet we have them, and we can marvel at those behaviors, and that's the freedom that we
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