Amicus, you always surprise me in our common ground. I would be bored in a strictly binary universe. However, I think what I mean is that these poles exist outside of the universe in some unknown superstructure--call it the multiverse, if you will. Our universe allows for random chance through the effects of entropy on the system since the beginning of time, and the fractal nature of reality, in fact, demands infinite variation. So there will never be an exact same...anything...in terms of events.

However, I do believe in Bohm's theories, which predict a deterministic universe, but in such a complex and complicated way that humans couldn't build a computer to calculate it all because you'd have to account for every single particle since the beginning of time. Plus, with the existence of black holes, that information is lost for now, unless we can figure out how to read information that has fallen into a black hole through the resulting hawking radiation.

But I posit that the universe repeats, over and over--so we will have this same conversation, possibly, in a new variation in the next aeon (universe after this one dies--see Roger Penrose and the Conformal Cyclic Cosmology model). That's what is so amazing--we ride a cosmologic sine wave that repeats over and over in infinitely new variation, and since I believe in the strong anthropologic theory, the universe is in some sense compelled to eventually have conscious and sapient life emerge within it.

What scientists have discovered with these hawking radiation ghosts of black holes from previous universes (confirming the CCC model) is that there are possibly infinite universes, but only some of them are capable of harboring life at all. So chances are, since this is a working pattern for nature (because why would the universe form at all without life to observe it? There's your observer effect on the macroscopic, cosmologic scale--lol), the next incarnation (in true fractal form) will most likely be very similar, with only small variations.

And I promise to buy you a drink in the next aeon, my friend!