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Do we have free will or are all our decisions predetermined?

Humans

Do we have free will or are all our decisions predetermined?

According to the laws of physics, everything we do follows inevitably from what happened before – and yet we’re convinced we can change the world. Can we?

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Philip Pullman

Humans

Philip Pullman: 'A story will help us make sense of anything'

Culture

Ted Danson and Kirsten Bell as Michael and Eleanor from The Good Place

Humans

The Good Place review: It is over, but I’m never going to say goodbye

Culture

The paradoxes of Zen Buddhism could help us grasp fundamental physics

Mind

The paradoxes of Zen Buddhism could help us grasp fundamental physics

Culture

Scientific truth

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Scientific truth

Karl Popper

People in Science

Karl Popper

angel statue

Humans

How humans evolved to be both shockingly violent and super-cooperative

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truth

Humans

How to think about... Scientific truth

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logic

Humans

How to think about... Logic

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Still from The Good Place

Humans

Trolley problem tested in real life for first time with mice

Would you kill someone to save five others? The first lab enactment of this classic thought experiment raises issues for how we programme self-driving cars

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Humans

Enlightenment now: The rise and fall of progress

Culture

Humans

Science isn't everything – and it's not even after the truth

Culture

Humans

We must challenge notions that Marx can explain the modern world

Culture

Life

A fine-tuned universe may be controversial but can't be ignored

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