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Hawking - Stephen and Leonard Mlodinow - The Grand Design - 12 Highlight(s)

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The Grand Design

Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow

Last accessed on Monday January 21, 2019

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but philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics.

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According to Feynman, a system has not just one history but every possible history.

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the universe itself has no single history, nor even an independent existence.

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model-dependent realism.

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M-theory.

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scientific determinism

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It is hard to imagine how free will can operate if our behavior is determined by physical law, so it seems that we are no more than biological machines and that free will is just an illusion.

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effective theory.

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model-dependent realism:

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realism.

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according to the principles of quantum

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physics, which is an accurate description of nature, a particle has neither a definite position nor a definite velocity unless and until those quantities are measured by an observer.

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