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There is some truth to that, but I know of times when I could be doing more then I was doing. Its easy to do nothing one day, when doing 2 hours of work would have made the day feel at least a little more productive and thus more towards ones potential.

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That's where the confusion comes in. You think you could have done more. The reality is, you couldn't have. The neurons in your brain would have fired the same way no matter what. Each of them took a predictable path based on prior causes and effects, regardless of how complex and humanly incalculable it was, I am convinced it was a deterministic one.

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