The Last Story

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In World A, the woman who was looking to see if she had gotten married? Teresa. Teresa thinks that it was only a matter of having made that decision or not,. But I think that after reading the whole story, what you realize is that, no, it only appears as if that was the singular cause that changed the rest of somebody's life. It could be that in some cases, a flooky atmosphere influence decision did have a big impact on somebody's life and whether they got a job offer or where they went to school. Well, and obviously a car who died in a car accident. Yeah, I guess the car accident is the extreme example of that is you don't

Is character destiny, or can fluky decisions or tiny shifts in weather patterns fundamentally change who we are? Does the existence or non-existence of alternate universes have any bearing on freedom and responsibility? David and Tamler conclude their discussion of Ted Chiang’s “Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom” along with another very short piece by Chiang called “What’s Expected of Us” that was first published in Nature.

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