@Arcana @MercurialBuilding @nemesis I think it makes sense from his mathbrain POV. As I see it Mercurial is asserting that the universe is basically an engine that consists of matter (and I guess dark matter/dark energy) that is organised by laws, and so the universe is either deterministic or probabilistic since everything is happening according to those laws acting upon matter. From this perspective the conception of the universe may be a fully original spark, but everything that happens after is the constant application of those laws from beginning to end. In this theory if you knew where everything was, and knew all the laws, and were smart enough, you could simulate the entire universe and watch it play out the same or predictably each time.