Laplace’s Demon: Who Gets the Last Laugh?

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Long ago, an infamously idealized demon crawled out of the fiery infernos of Pierre-Simon Laplace’s mind and set up shop in philosophy texts and thought experiments for years to come, prodding us with its pitchfork of ambiguity to consider whether our reality is deterministic in nature or whether we each have the ability to exercise unimpeded free will.