Re: A defence of determinism


Lance wrote:

If universal determinism is true, everything you do could have been
predicted at the time of the big bang by a sufficiently powerful
intelligence. Ergo all your causes are caused.

Why would it matter if this hypothetical (and extremely implausible)
Vast Intelligence could have predicted everything from beginning to
end?

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