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The Alchemist The Alchemist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 3,533,349 ratings — published 1988
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Arcadia Arcadia (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 24,053 ratings — published 1993
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“It’s actually funny that science lays claim to randomness since no one has ever seen a random event. Scientists interpret events as random rather than causal because of their dogmatic ideology. Their paradigm forbids them from referring to unobservable causal processes – implying a reality more fundamental than science which science cannot penetrate – but accepts randomness, as the least threat to science’s supremacy, even though, in Hume’s terms, randomness is no more empirical than causation, hence no more scientifically valid, and infinitely less rational!”
David Sinclair, Universals Versus Particulars: The Ultimate Intellectual War

Daniel C. Dennett
“In fact, if you are faced with the prospect of running across an open field in which lightning bolts are going to be a problem, you are much better off if their timing and location are determined by something, since then they may be predictable by you, and hence avoidable. Determinism is the friend, not the foe, of those who dislike inevitability.”
Daniel C. Dennett, Freedom Evolves

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