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This doesn't mean I don't want to do good or don't want to see murderers jailed.
It simply means that if the universe was rewound like a VHS tape and played again, nothing would change. That our actions are fully deterministic.
If free will existed then rewinding the universe and playing forward again would result in different outcomes.
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This doesn't mean I don't want to do good or don't want to see murderers jailed.
It simply means that if the universe was rewound like a VHS tape and played again, nothing would change. That our actions are fully deterministic.
If free will existed then rewinding the universe and playing forward again would result in different outcomes.