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The Fundamentals of Reality

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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Is There a Causal Relationship?

We inherited these structures through evolution, logical systems that obey the laws of physics. And so the good fortune that it's incoded in the way we think is really not magic, right? Even the fact that we can invent as a result ofor the way our nerons are configured, which is laid down by forces that led to evolution. I suppose telechinesus was possible, and i could like teleconetically move my cup. Presumably i could do it every time in the same way. Otherwise it wouldn't, would just be uncorrelated phenoLike there'd be, it wouldn't be teleconesus unless i could intend to do it and do it, and

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