A cosmic DNA?
According to the hard deterministic view, there is an inevitability about the evolution of the universe that is the result of the causal chain of events. That chain started at the singularity of the Big bang. In my opinion, that implies that everything in our universe down to my writing these lines was somehow inherent in some initial specific properties of the Big Bang; sort of a Cosmic DNA. Not being a determinist I cannot come to term with such possibility, but logically I find it hard to refute it.
A cosmic DNA? — Jacob-B
In The Open Universe Popper presents a neat argument that, if you try to introduce the Laplacean demon into a relativistic framework, the necessary information to "predict" the future (=determinism) can never be available. So the universe must be "indetermined".
It's in section 17, "Is Classical Physics Accountable". — Pantagruel
My understanding of comtabilisim is that under certain circumstances you can make your own free will choice which is not deterministic. It is a bit like 'eating the cake and having it' but many philosophers
agree with it.
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