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Free Will Explained by World’s Top Intellectuals

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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The Impossibility of Perfectly Predicting Human Choice (PBS O’Dowd)

It is believed that it is practically and in principle impossible for any observer to perfectly predict an individual's choices./nThe concept of Laplace's Demon, an entity that can predict behavior based on knowledge of every particle in the universe, is unlikely to exist./nDavid Walpart's limits on inference machines suggest that even Laplace's Demon in Newtonian mechanics cannot exist./nThe speaker argues that even with the limitations of relativity, free will is real in a meaningful sense.

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