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What do we know today about the laws governing the universe on a micro and macro scale? Is randomness a natural feature of the world? Or is every event determined by the laws of nature and previous events? Is there room for human freedom in the universe? This will be discussed by specialists in quantum mechanics, information theory, chaos theory and philosophy of nature: prof. Marek Kuś and prof. Karol Życzkowski. Prof. Karol Życzkowski works at the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the Jagiellonian University. He conducts research in the areas of nonlinear and complex systems, classical and quantum chaos, quantum information theory, voting theory, econophysics and financial mathematics. He has just been awarded a prestigious grant programme of the European Research Council (ERC), thanks to which he will carry out a research project devoted to typical and atypical structures in quantum theory. This is only the 13th grant in this category (ERC Advanced Grant) implemented in Poland. Marek Kuś graduated from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw in 1979, where he then worked as an assistant and assistant professor at the Department of Mathematical Methods of Physics and the Institute of Theoretical Physics. Since 1989, he has been an employee of the Center for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, where he was the Director in 2003-2006. Co-founder of the National Center for Quantum Information Science in Gdańsk and long-time Chairman of its Scientific Council. In 2017-2021, he was also the director of the International Center for Formal Ontology at the Warsaw University of Technology. He deals with the foundations of quantum mechanics and information science, chaos theory, and the philosophy of natural sciences. The meeting was led by Dr. Tomasz Miller from the Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at the Jagiellonian University. The event was organized as part of the Copernicus Festival 2024: Machine on May 24 at the Museum of Engineering and Technology in Kraków. The partners of Copernicus Festival 2024: Machine are the Małopolska Tourism Organization and the City of Krakow. The project is co-financed from the state budget, granted by the Minister of Education and Science under the Social Responsibility of Science II Program. The partner of the Confrontations band is the National Science Center. Support the Copernicus channel: / @copernicuscenter https://patronite.pl/copernicus