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1. thing is that even the possibility that mechanical causality applies only to limited scales/systems is enough to undo any committment to determinism at all.
2. to think that abandoning determinism means that therefore everything is random is an inversion of the same logic: randomness is more coherent defined as the inverse of determined. the assumption is that to be=to be determined, to have an a priori form. that meanings are transcendent, in short---the reverse of determinacy is indeterminacy, and the transposition of indeterminacy is a chain of words like randomness.
the problem is the way of thinking itself---the trouble created by frames of reference shaped by this way of thinking simply replicate them, follows from them.
3. the problem then is not determinacy/indeterminacy.
it is whether there is another way of thinking about ontology.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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