PHILOSOPHERS ARE WEIRD: from my epistemology reading:
"Given the demon's intentions, no matter what the prior arrangement of the molecules, they will end up in a state that lawfully evolves into a state in which I levitate. We might ask why the demon had this intention, but it is not so hard to find a possible purpose behind it. If I were a Laplacian demon I would probably do things like this for kicks."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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