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Party shark doo doo doo-doo doo-doo

One, two, skip some poo, ninety-nine, a hundred

Doesn’t matter. Once TransPennine is nationalised, she’ll be free to roam anywhere.

Other way round, surely?

About 20 years ago, I was walking through a city centre with a friend, on the way to catch a train. A couple of Mormons tried to stop us, asking, “Have you ever thought about the purpose of life?”

Barely breaking stride, I shouted out, “Hot sweaty man sex!”

I don’t consider that to be the purpose of life¹, but remembering the look on their faces helps keep me grounded whenever I’m inclined to consider questions that cannot be answered.

That said, my resolution to the conflict between free will and determinism is to assume assume that ‘truth’ operates on a principle of equivalence. That’s to say, if two models generate the equivalent outcomes, they are equivalently ‘true’. The universe we observe could have deterministic rules that give rise to the same observable outcomes as one in which we have absolute free will, in which case the two models are equivalent. It would make no sense to endow one with a greater truth than the other.

That’s a slightly difference definition of ‘truth’ than is commonly accepted, but it works for me.

¹: It’s just a nice bonus.

A man like Ringo Elon got a great empty hole right through the middle of him. He can never kill enough or steal enough or inflict enough pain to ever fill it.

I’m David Dickinson and I am the Hunter