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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wether it is deterministic or not is not written into stone though. Determinism and free will have been debated heavily in the philosophy in the last centuries. Just stating "we live in a deterministic universe" is a point of view, but not a scientific fact.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

It is a scientific fact. We definitely live in a deterministic universe - all branches of science confirm this. Well I think there's some dwindling hope for non-determinism in some interpretations of quantum physics.

At the moment the debate is between hard determinism and compatiblism, which states that the universe is deterministic but we can still meaningfully talk about free will, because even though it's an illusion our brains create, the fact that our brains create this illusion makes it real enough for our purposes.