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{{a|philosophy|}}Scientific [[reductionism]] taken to its logical conclusion, a conclusion that is so plainly illogical you think it would cause pause for thought, but because [[reductionist]]s are so terrified of post-modernism, people tend to swallow it and just go with it, no matter how insane its consequences.  

Determinists reason, [[deduction|deductively]], that seeing as the universe is wholly and exclusively a material thing, and is governed by immutable laws of physics and [[causation]] — but is it? — anything that will happen to any part of the universe can, with enough computational horse power and the right amount of [[information]], be calculated in advance, and the fact that something hasn’t been so pre-calculated, or predicted, and that the trajectory of every atom in the universe has not, yet, been charted from its origin at the big bang to its final logical end point in the [[gnab gib]], being the same singularity with which our universe began only with the arrow of time reversed — is merely a reflection of the inadequacy of our computational apparatus, and our approach to data-gathering.  

Since, if everything were solved, there would be no point to existence at all, this is a pretty desolate worldview. All that saves us from that place is a marginal degree of ignorance. Great.