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Ep. 121 - The Philosophy of Loki w/Drs. Matt Flummer and Taylor Cyr

Parker's Pensées

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Is the Particle Accelerator Just a Cool Way of Flipping a Coin

The particle accelerator will guarantee indeterminacy, whereas maybe a coin flip it approximates 50-50 chance. I don't think every time they get a text, they're shooting off or anything. And imagine that you could somehow travel from one of the universes to the other. You could basically meet your variants and there could be maybe an infinite number of these worlds where you'd make different decisions but interact with someone who made a different choice back in school. It's fun for thinking what might have been.

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