Determinism

[TripleSix]

Do you believe in free will? Or do you believe that everything has a preset destiny?

Determinism states that every action in the universe including human behavior is pre determined by an unbroken chain of previous events. The roots of determinism are based on a simple philosophical idea: The idea that everything can, in principal, be explained, or that everything that is, has a sufficient reason for being as it is, and not otherwise. Do not get this confused with fate or predestination. Fate is due to an act of god and suggests a higher purpose to our lives. Determinism is simply the result of the chain of causality, no god or purpose.

What do you believe?

 

[FreedomFight]

In physics, we know the the "chain of causality" is broken by entropy, chaos, and a matter of indeterminate probability.

Because some things are said to be random or chaotic, and not necessarily based on direct causation, I would have to say no. I do not believe in determinism in the sense you speak of.

 

[Xombi]

I believe it is true for the average person. I believe that the average, "normal" person is subject to determinism, but the obscure of us and the "abnormal" of us are simply abnormal because we don't obey this principle. I think that normal and abnormal are determined based on your ability to follow "the guidelines of your life".

 

[TripleSix]

In physics, we know the the "chain of causality" is broken by entropy, chaos, and a matter of indeterminate probability.

Because some things are said to be random or chaotic, and not necessarily based on direct causation, I would have to say no. I do not believe in determinism in the sense you speak of.

That's a valid point, things on a subatomic scale are said to be random and undeterminable, but do you think that on a grand scale that determinism could exist.

 

[FreedomFight]

That's a valid point, things on a subatomic scale are said to be random and undeterminable, but do you think that on a grand scale that determinism could exist.

Well it's just not the subatomic scale... and as you might notice... the small things are part of the big ones ^^.