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Two implications to Democritus' theory about atoms
- The world as we know it doesn't really exist. It is just incomprehensible atoms, and our minds create a reality out of these atoms.
- The world is entirely made up of atoms.
Democritus was then the first "determinist" in that he stated that there could be no free will or choice - we are just moving to the laws of physics. His conclusions about atoms could only be proven millennia later.
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One of Democritus' question was how atoms made objects. He noticed that the world is constantly changing, dying, growing. The worlds flow, therefore atoms must flow. They can't just be still.
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