Determinism
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Determinism is the philosophical proposition that every event, including human cognition and behavior, decision and action, is causally determined by an unbroken chain of prior occurrences.
The doctrine that all actions are determined by the current state and immutable laws of the universe, with no possibility of choice.
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- Amor fati
- Block time
- Calvinism
- Chaos theory
- Digital physics
- Environmental determinism
- Fatalism
- Fractal
- False necessity
- Game theory
- Genetic determinism
- Ilya Prigogine
- Interpretation of quantum mechanics
- Neuroscience of free will
- Open theism
- Philosophical interpretation of classical physics
- Predestination
- Radical behaviorism
- Social determinism
- Theological determinism
- Technological determinism
- Voluntarism
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