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Surprise: Free Will Needs Quantum Physics to Fail, Physicists Show

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Some physicists believe that human consciousness is somehow linked to the indeterministic element of quantum physics. But according to a surprising new argument that just appeared on the arXiv, a world where everything is ruled by quantum physics is incompatible with the idea of free will. Let’s take a look.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.13247
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