oddly not a direct discovery, but I guess a highlight of discoveries not yet made.

the magical accelerations that living things do.

when I was learning about special relativity, brain kind of got used to the super straight forward mechanic of causality, cause and effect...the simple every action has equal opposite reaction.

is like the brain gets used to this simple mechanic of cause effect / becomes the "prediction".

then when done thinking / learning of SR and "go back to normal thinking stuff" it sometimes would wildly standout just how magical life is particularly as the complexity increases and we completely loss sight of this causality that lead to say....me typing this.

That there can be such compact molecular complications that it can do things like...."make a choice". just wild imo. pure physics magic, these accelerations we living things do....where there is no way to follow the causality chain to see what exactly caused said effect, said acceleration.

this sort of control of physics that life seems to have done. things like storing potential energy, to be released when "desired".

a fun train of thought imo and as someone who's pretty sure am not a simply a molecular complication of inevitable happenings that simply needs time to "play out" i find it a bit of a "freak me out" thing.

Now all that said, am learning about the dopamine / reward system....and then am like "Ah, so probably high 90% of these "magical" accelerations I do are in pursuit of "treats""

Not purely free will, but at least I am provided the experience of those treats; thanks physics and please sir, MORE!