If we define fate as simply the path that our lives take, then yes, I believe in fate because it's impossible not to. If we define it as a pre-determined path from which we cannot deviate and which we cannot know, I'm ambivalent about it. If we can't tell the difference between a reality where we make our own choices and one where some undetectable agent makes our choices for us, the discussion seems moot.
I prefer to believe that we guide our own lives and not that we follow a programmed path from which it isn't possible to deviate. I think it's natural to want that, to feel that our decisions are purpose-driven and not a higher form of instinctual reaction. If it's not true, and I cannot find my connection to the matrix, then I'll treat fate like I treat god.
I prefer to believe that we guide our own lives and not that we follow a programmed path from which it isn't possible to deviate. I think it's natural to want that, to feel that our decisions are purpose-driven and not a higher form of instinctual reaction. If it's not true, and I cannot find my connection to the matrix, then I'll treat fate like I treat god.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
