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What does that mean?<\/li>\n<li>If people are free, would it be possible to predict their behavior?<\/li>\n<li>If people aren\u2019t free, could we still feel free, because we don\u2019t know exactly what the future holds for us?<\/li>\n<li>When we call something magic, what do we mean?<\/li>\n<li>Could the magician really do impossible things?<\/li>\n<li>Are there different ways for something to be impossible? 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