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What's your opinion on free will?

I am religious and believe in free will
- 71 (27.6%)
I am religious and do not believe in free will
- 10 (3.9%)
I am not religious and believe in free will
- 115 (44.7%)
I am not religious and do not believe in free will
- 61 (23.7%)

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Author Topic: Railgun and Spirituality Discussion  (Read 708752 times)

toastercultist

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Re: Railgun and Spirituality Discussion
« Reply #7875 on: February 05, 2025, 01:29:14 am »

PTW, this is really interesting.
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Re: Railgun and Spirituality Discussion
« Reply #7876 on: February 05, 2025, 04:03:59 am »

Which of course means that all patterns will eventually cease, since all patterns need some other pattern to exist and no interchange of energy is perfectly efficient.

Eventually may be so beyond a reasonable timeframe that it can be replaced with eternal for human-scaled periods.
Also, self-replicating means errors in copying, means mutation, means evolution. These patterns will cease to exist to be replaced by their descendants
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