I'm going to present arguments... to strongly support... that we do... have free will, but not... to prove it at the deductive level. - John Horton Conway

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I'm going to present arguments... to strongly support... that we do... have free will, but not... to prove it at the deductive level.

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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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Alternative Names: John H. Conway JHC John Conway Conway
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