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NL – Article speedbump

Even
Mother Nature can seem reluctant to choose, keeping cats both dead and alive,
and running up a large multiverse tab. By some accounts, there is no such thing
as time, or events, which means that what we experience as choices are just
mathematical solutions to distant boundary value problems.    

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