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Originally Posted by JinnKai
Then what of probability, lankrypt?
If I flip a coin, there is a 50% chance for it to heads, and a 50% chance for it to be tails. We know this empirically, but we also know it logically.
It has nothing to do with previous experience ("chain reactions", as you call them), and can easily act in either of the two potential states.
Are you claiming that the reason it's 50% is not because it's random, but because there is something about the physics of flipping a coin that we don't understand?
If not, then why our lives not allegorically described in the same way as flipping a series of independent coins?
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You need to think deeper into the past, before you flip that coin, realize its outcome was already determined. EVERYTHING has already been determined, you reading this post, your brains thoughts as you think of a response and then you typing it. Your life, your actions and "choices" between now and your death, already "known" we just don't know how to predict it.
When I talk about "chain reactions" I am talking about literal atoms colliding, joining and splitting, that all started with the big bang itself. Your action of flipping a coin was determined THEN. That flip is just a result of an unmeasureable amount of previous atomic level chain reactions. The "random" 50% chance of heads and tails is really just an illusion. So, I suppose, its outcome is being determined by something we do not, and cannot understand.
This concept took me a while to really understand myself, its really like trying to wrap your head around infinity. Sure we talk about something being infinite, but have you ever tried to really sit down and imagine it? This is along that same a line, there were a fininte, number of "actions" that led us here. (Though the number is anything we can imagine and for all intents and purposes could be infinite)