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Philosophical geekery. No quantum mechanics.

Liquids flow always downhill.
Physics prohibits free will.
But with complex machines
Like computers or genes,
There might be some wiggle room still…

• the dice-rolling machine
• “Any sufficiently complex system is indistinguishable from randomness.” -Paul Lagasse
• The Sims
• the butterfly effect
• the meaning of life
• How would you live your life differently if you knew your “free will” was fake?
• Heisenbugs
• software as ecosystem
• programmer becomes trainer, minder, friend, lover
• AI

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