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FIN [from finite speed] is the axiom... from relativity theory that information... can't travel faster than the speed of light.

— John Horton Conway The Free Will Lectures (2009)

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Most scientists until fairly recently are determinists.

The Free Will Lectures (2009)

Neither of us could have done it without the other.

The Free Will Lectures (2009)

We are planning a sequel... The Geometry of Low-Dimensional Groups and Lattices which will contain two earlier papers...

Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups (1988)

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.

The Free Will Lectures (2009)

We don't think it's an illusion ...It's not ...We think we have free will.

The Free Will Lectures (2009)

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