How do I reconcile Fate and Free Will? Well, here's an attempt.
At birth we are given a jigsaw puzzle with a picture on the box. Being pawns of Fate, we are required to use the pieces in the box. Being creatures of Free Will, we don't have to construct that picture.
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Genius is the ability to do what no one thought possible, and to do it in a way that can clearly be improved upon.
One thing you can learn from your dog is when to go lie under the dining room table and await developments.
You'll know that AI has completely replicated human intelligence when it forms a Flat Earth Society.
If Time were to pause, say for ten minutes, how exactly would it know when to start up again?
Never act for "a whole list of reasons." Rarely does a compelling reason occur as part of a list.
It is perhaps fortunate that the intelligence it takes to be a human being is not a requirement for admittance into the species.
