(July 21, 2013 at 5:42 pm)apophenia Wrote:Okay. So then the world is not governed by determinism.(July 21, 2013 at 4:37 pm)bennyboy Wrote: "Fixed" is "set in stone," and is not "open."
The natural laws as we currently understand them are stochastic, being composed of random and non-random elements, thus no future event is "set in stone" by the natural laws if randomness plays a defining role in its causation.
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