"According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ ...

Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.
~ Brian Greene ~












Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory....
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