Spinoza on the iPhone

Let's workshop this poem about the truth of determinism and how, in particular, it is compatible with novelty in the world (and how, implicitly, it is compatible with any new scientific finding)

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Spinoza on the iPhone

All “novelty”
is a function of the “past”
construed at its richest,
for were reality now—

that is, all that is 
(temporally or atemporally)
now—not enough
to sprout the “future” 

that does sprout,
that would entail 
the summum absurdum: 
reality sprouting from nothing.

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