More than a century later, the same flicker of freewill sparked the War for Independence and fired up a new nation.

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Mr. SCHACTMAN: As one guy I really respect who's a lieutenant colonel pointed out, it's like you can't predict who's going to win the Iowa caucuses, and now, you're going to replicate freewill.

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