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One consequence of the ... plus the assumption we actually have free will, is that even in the... inanimate world of particles, it's not true, this .… - John Horton Conway
" "One consequence of the ... plus the assumption we actually have free will, is that even in the... inanimate world of particles, it's not true, this . A particle does one thing or another, and there's no reason... There's nothing in the previous history of the universe which tells it what to do.
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About John Horton Conway
John Horton Conway (26 December 1937 – 11 April 2020) was an English mathematician, and Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University in New Jersey. He was active in the theory of s, , number theory, and . He also made contributions to many branches of , most notably the invention of the with . Born and raised in , Conway spent the first half of his career at the University of Cambridge before moving to the United States, where he held the John von Neumann Professorship at Princeton University for the rest of his career. He died of complications from COVID-19 at age 82.
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