{Chaotic Determinism (+ Extracts) [continued (25)]}[4th August 1988]

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Of course, I may be wrong:* even Individual Human choices may be theoretically deterministic;** the fact that Scientists know that in practice they cannot predict them, is irrelevant. In this case, of course, ‘randomness’ is also an illusion, an approximation to allow some predictability of unpredictably determined events.

It would be quite unfair to try to force Scientists to attempt universal prediction in order to prove determinacy: the matter must be settled, if it can be settled, on a philosophical basis. But until it is settled, I shall follow my Intuition – as Scientists and (particularly) Mathematicians do – in behaving as though there really is a freedom of the Spirit in Man, frequently influenced, but ultimately not constrained, by the deterministic nature of the Physical Universe.

*[See last previous entry]

**Some comments of +M in ‘[1]’*** and +C in ‘[2]’*** may be read as supporting this, although I do not think so myself; the co-existence of Human Individual (& collective) freedom with Divine omniscience is not the same as the conflict of the former with Physical Determinism.

***[Subject to revision]

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