Determinism is the philosophical proposition that every event, including human cognition and behaviour, decision and action, is causally determined by an unbroken chain of prior occurrences.
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i believe in free choice, not determinism.
An interesting topic, as much in the universe seems to be determined, like the orbit of planets around stars. When it comes to human behaviour, there is a part of it non-determined, what we call free-will. I believe this is the case because of our consciousness. I would not rule out animals from this either. On the level of atoms there has been done experiments with light crossing 2 cracks, see the Bohr-Einstein debates.
Human nature is fundamentally unchanged; the times may change, but people remain the same. People are driven by the same motivations, and nations war over the same divisions. There's a reason why Sun Tsu, Thucydides, and Clausewitz are still widely taught in war colleges and military academies across the world.
Companies spend billions in advertising because it works; public relation firms are hired because they know how people react.
And if human nature is constant, and to a large degree predictable, I don't see how we're fundamentally different than Pavlov's dogs.
a philosophical or theological school that does not consider man as an independent . In other words, man is either not a functor at all or does not do his job at all, or if so, he has no choice but to do or leave them. In contrast to this school is tyranny that voluntarily recognizes some human behaviors. The determinists believe that man's ostensibly voluntary behaviors are not really different from other natural human actions (breathing, heart rate and..
@ALeXey_DyaDyK08 Sometimes it's not important for humans to copy some things. The important thing is that we generally learn and remember that.
In my view determinism is not a philosophical question, it is a physical one. And we know that the interaction between elementary particles is - at least partly - influenced by quantum mechanics where we only have probabilities for a particle being at a position at a certain time but not a 100% certainty. And this is inherent in quantum mechanics. It's not that we just haven't figured out some sort of hidden parameter.
So if we are fundamentally not able to calculate - or to determine (to use this word) - what a bunch of particles is going to do in the future I fail to see how determinism could be true.
How could determinism be true if quantum fuzziness is factual?it also seems an evasion of personal responsibility (it's not my fault,the universe made me dood it)
Well, I have never heard of the word before!
