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> it's extremely controversial and taboo because of its implications on free will (e.g., I see no mention of it at all in this article).

"True" free will is ruled out by all existing physical theories, so that's not why it's controversial. The bigger problem with superdeterminism is that it wants to explain physics without assuming statistical independence, even for far away events.



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