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Peter Ellison is the author of The Unlived, a speculative novel exploring simulated reality, free will, and the cost of moral compromise. An engineer and entrepreneur, he has spent his career at the intersection of technology, artificial intelligence, and business. He holds a PhD from MIT and lives in Colorado.

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I Had No Need of That Hypothesis

In 1802, or thereabouts, Napoleon asked the mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace why his treatise on celestial mechanics contained no mention of God. Laplace’s reply has been quoted ever since: I had no need of that hypothesis.²

The answer was correct. Newtonian mechanics, as Laplace had extended and formalized it, could account for the behavior of the solar system without invoking divine interve

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