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    It is not the case that The Final Theory of Everything is deterministic

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    • 1.Quantum mechanics, the best-confirmed physical theory we have, is irreducibly indeterministic under standard (Copenhagen) and GRW interpretations.
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    • 2.Any Final Theory of Everything must recover quantum mechanical predictions, including their probabilistic structure, as a limiting case.
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    • 3.Therefore a Final Theory that eliminates indeterminism wholesale would fail to account for confirmed quantum phenomena, making P1's stipulation empirically unmotivated.
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    • 1.Norton's Dome demonstrates that even classical Newtonian mechanics—paradigmatically continuous and governed by PDEs—admits non-unique solutions violating determinism.
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    • 2.P2's claim that PDE-governed theories are universally deterministic is falsified by this well-documented counterexample in the philosophical physics literature.
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    • 3.The inference from 'governed by PDEs' to 'deterministic' therefore cannot ground a confident assertion about the Final Theory's deterministic character.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Whatever the Final Theory of Everything is, it will involve only continuous fluids and solids governed by partial differential equations
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    • 2.All theories involving only continuous fluids and solids governed by partial differential equations are deterministic
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