Why causality (and free will) are dead

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Something caused you to click on this post. Or, at least, it’s likely you can identify a clear, well-defined origin to your current state of reading these words. Perhaps you were compelled from the title. Maybe it appeared in your inbox and you decided to give the first paragraph a go. Failing all of that, perhaps you slipped on a perfectly positioned banana skin, executing a flawless mouse click that only the most…