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Letter: Letter: Special case

Published 2 February 1991

From HARRY WEST

I think that Huw Price misinterprets John Bell’s view (Letters, 12 January).
He did not want to ‘avoid faster than light nonlocal connections’. He preferred
to be rid of Einstein’s special relativity. Einstein, incidentally, did
not believe in free will, it not being a concept that has a place in science;
nor has the concept of ‘determinism’. What we need is to overrun the determined
state, as we know it in science, and this we have been doing ever since
we learnt to think and put two and two together.

Harry West Honiton Devon

Issue no. 1754 published 2 February 1991

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