BennyV04988
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So in my materials class the other day, my teacher asked us what the difference between deterministic and stochastic was. It got me thinking though if anything was really "stochastic" ( indeterminate) or are we simply incapable of measuring and accounting for all of the variables of the universe?
I mean, things often "appear" random, but we all know that a bouncing basketball's path is governed by universal laws, we just can't predict where it will go so we merely call it random.
So if everything of that sort is deterministic, is all of the complexity and interconnectedness of reality moving towards an inescapable, unique state that is predetermined by it's current state? Is this one HUGE closed system with essentially infinite variables?
If so, then where is / what is consciousness? Do we have free will at all?
I mean, things often "appear" random, but we all know that a bouncing basketball's path is governed by universal laws, we just can't predict where it will go so we merely call it random.
So if everything of that sort is deterministic, is all of the complexity and interconnectedness of reality moving towards an inescapable, unique state that is predetermined by it's current state? Is this one HUGE closed system with essentially infinite variables?
If so, then where is / what is consciousness? Do we have free will at all?