Deterministic Universe (step seven) No chaos, and summery (Q.E.F)

I propose that even though we may be able to prove uncertainty, we still do not disprove determinism. This is because all proofs related to uncertainty (probability clouds, chaos theory, etc) say that humans cannot measure or predict an event, but they do not say the events violate any law of science.

A deterministic system is a conceptual model of the philosophical doctrine of determinism applied to a system for understanding everything that has and will occur in the system, based on the physical outcomes of causality. In a deterministic system, every action, or cause, produces a reaction, or effect, and every reaction, in turn, becomes the cause of subsequent reactions. The totality of these cascading events can theoretically show exactly how the system will exist at any moment in time.

This should not offend theologists, as a deterministic universe should prove to them the phrase, “God has a plan,” is true. It could also prove to them that we do not live wading in a pool of chaos. But this is one’s own interpretation, and I am simple explaining it.

Science seems to have uncovered a set of laws that, within the limits set by the uncertainty principle, tell us how the universe will develop with time, if we know its state at any one time. These laws may have originally been decreed by God, but it appears that He has since left the universe to evolve according to them and does not now intervene in it. This is to say that God chose the initial configuration – taking into account, say, you praying that you ace your final – of the universe for reasons that we cannot hope to understand. The whole history of sciences has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

Physics determines your actions, but it does so in such a way that it is impossible to calculate for an organism that is as complicated as a human being. The reason we say that humans have free will is because we can’t predict what they will do. The Uncertainty Principle makes atomic predictions impossible to calculate, but they continue to act, locked inside the box with Schrödinger’s cat. An object of any size will act according to the laws of physics. Any object will have an immediate previous state, and an immediate future state. No event will happen that precludes any law of physics. Therefore the future of all events is determinable, even if we cannot observe them ourselves. Will is therefore not free and deliberate choice and actions are determined from antecedent causes.

Maybe when I learn more about quantum cosmology, I will be able to disprove this, much to my satisfaction.


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