This opens the door to “compatibilism”—the view that a deterministic world can still be a world with free will.[31] We can make free decisions (that is, ones not caused by something else, like another person), even though our decisions are determined by underlying laws of reality. A determined world means that we could theoretically look either forward or backward in time, since everything is determined in either direction. But under rule 110–style rules, the only way we can perfectly see forward is through all the steps actually unfolding. And so, viewed through the lens of panprotopsychism,
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