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The Hegemony rejects nihilistic beliefs for the negative effects they have on societies- especially the most intelligent class, like the Supreme Rulers. But while the <span class="mu-i">ultimate</span> fate of the universe has no sway on you, the <span class="mu-i">fact</span> that everything you are doing and choosing to do is the result of forces set in motion before you were born anyway certainly does. The moment the first electron spin was discovered, any notion of free will should have been dashed from the minds of every living person who learned it. To think otherwise is purely a cope. Nobody can know the property of inertia and not also know, deep down, that their choice is an illusion of self-sensing matter.
You've reached the end of the tower, and the access ladder to the roof. It's locked by metal bolts, a natural security feature. With no AI to unlock it, you are stuck here. You can feel the heat of the sun just behind the reinforced steel hatch.
<span class="mu-r">”Look at you, oh so proud “Supreme Ruler”, running up here like any animal fearing for its life. Come into my jaws, experience the void. First you'll feel pain- and then nothing. Ever again. Eheheeh!”</span>
The brain is well understood. You know where the consciousness lies. The ability of “Starsight” is not understood, but you know you will find the answer someday- or some other race, after yours has gone extinct. The outcome of this “””combat””” has been predetermined before the first rocks that formed this planet had even cooled. This is the deterministic principle. It is purely a game of numbers, of mass units and muscle and speeds against each other. No amount of personal grit will change the outcome.
<span class="mu-r">”Die! DIE DIE DIE! EHEHEH!”</span>
The pure serendipity of you being here, in this place, being pursued by this creature seems to be the outcome of a million different systems combining into a single finite state. If everything in this universe is physical, how can anything change the iron laws of physical reality?
>Choose
>Do not choose
