Existentialism

[Angrboda]

There's room for both, it could be both reassuring and true.  Describing it as comforting doesn't make it untrue.  Personally, I suspect the opposite, that most are afraid of giving up the notion of responsibility that they think determinism entails.

Fair enough. I'm no physicist, so I just assume it boils down to what vision of the universe one prefers: a world of contingency and uncertainty on the one hand, or one of machine-like order and algorithmic inevitability on the other.

Those are fables. Meant to impress little children.