> From: GUEST,Blandiver
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> There can be no reproduction - it is a different experience even from one set of ears to the next. This is the way of all things; the default state is such that not only does Nature never repeat itself, Nature can never repeat itself.

What rubbish. Nature repeats itself all the time.

The whole of existence generally and life particularly is founded on repeatability. If nothing was repeatable, there would be no laws of nature generally, and physics and chemistry particularly.

Every event that had ever occurred from the Big Bang onwards would essentially have been random and unpredictable, and the universe would have remained entirely chaotic - the particular ordered arrangements that we call galaxies, stars, planets, molecules, and atoms would not exist, and that particular self-replicating (implying repeatability) arrangement of molecules that we call life, even at the very lowest level let alone the highest, could never have evolved, and therefore neither you or I would exist.

Suppose you are a lion hunting wildebeest, and you succeed in catching and killing one. Fine, from what we know, that's as expected. But tomorrow, randomly, the wildebeest that you had thought was prey catches and kills you the lion? How could evolution occur in such an environment?

> Each fashioned thing

Meaning what exactly?

> speaks of its change;

How? Are you saying that you're hearing voices?

> to say otherwise is to refute the temporal & transitory nature of existence in which all is flux.

If all was flux, I wouldn't be able to deduce anything about you, yet I can, even though I've never met you. I know that you are a type of animal that we call mammal, of the perhaps inappropriately named genus Homo Sapiens, and that at some time or other you were born, and some time later you will die. I can use averages to predict how long you are likely to live, the sort of things you are most likely to eat, etc, etc. From the fact that you are posting such idle rubbish here I can further predict that you must have access to at least one of a selection of possible pieces of electronic gadgetry - a mobile phone, a tablet, or a personal computer (without capital letters).

The whole scientific and technological man-made world that we are using to have this latter day equivalent of a discussion is based on humans being clever enough to understand that nearly all aspects of existence are to an extent predictable, to have worked out the laws of nature that govern them, and to have built devices that can manipulate these laws for our own ends. Without repeatability, none of this would have been possible.