In the last posting, I pointed out that the free will problem is usually framed as the question of whether freedom is possible in a deterministic universe. One reply to this question (as we’ll see, it ...

Alex Garland deconstructed the Turing test with Ex Machina and tormented our psyches with a horrifying alien invasion in Annihilation. Now he's tackling free will vs. a deterministic universe in Devs.

Space Time weigh in on physics and free will. Physicists have a long history of sticking our noses where they don’t belong - and one of our favorite places to step beyond our expertise is the question ...

On the basis of three physical axioms, we prove that if the choice of a particular type of spin 1 experiment is not a function of the information accessible to the experimenters, then its outcome is ...

Now let's see. Jack tosses a coin, he calls it as heads or tails. It lands, and he estimates the chances were 50% that he would be right. Jack run a series of tests of the coin and his assumption ...