The Quantum Physics of Free Will

Do we have autonomy, or are our choices preordained? Is that a false choice? And what, if anything, does physics have to say about that?

By George Musser on February 6, 2012

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George Musser

George Musser is a contributing editor for Scientific American, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory (Alpha, 2008) and of Spooky Action at a Distance (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015). This article won the 2011 Science Communication Award from the American Institute of Physics.

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