does anyone believe in determinism and what are your views ?

Answer 1

I do believe in determinism but its existence doesn’t mean that we don’t have a free will. Yes, our choices are imposed by past events, past experiences, so what? This doesn’t mean we’re not making those choices ourselves and also, take in consideration that no mind is smart enough to predict our choices, therefore to prove that we are predictable.

Answer 2

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Ok I will answer the obvious objections.

1) "The universe is not determined à la quantum physics."

You're right. But what's happening at the multiply microscopic level doesn't necessitate change on the macro structures in place. A Newtonian vocabulary is sufficient for most phenomena, unless we're traveling at the speed of light or studying the nature of waves and particles.

2) "The universe is not determined therfore we have free will"

This doesn't follow. That's why Strawson's pessimistic view is one of the most cogent forms of determinism. The notion of free will leads to regress.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will#Other_views

Because there is some randomness in the universe, it does not mean that we thereby possess a faculty capable of making 'free' choices independant of any environmental influence-- rather such a faculty itself has a capacity for randomness, or the influences are quasi-random. Randomness is not identical to freedom.

3) "Determinism is compatible with free will"

No it is not, unless you redefine 'freedom' to mean something completely different-- which is the route most philosophers take.
But it is not satisfactory to delude ourselves in such a way. If you are determined, your actions could not have been otherwise. There is no room for freedom there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will#Incompatibilism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will#Compatibilism

Answer 3

yes, I find it to be a fact of life until you trandsend the cause of it. I perfer to call it by the eastern word, Karma. Karma,(lit. action)1) any action-physical,verbal,or mental;2) destiny,which is caused by past actions,mainly those of previous lives. Karma Yoga; The yoga of action.A spiritual path expounded by Lord Kristhna in the Bagavad Gita,in which one performs actions as and offering to God,while remaining detached from the fruits of the actions this discription is from the book Mukteshwari by Swami Muktananda.

Answer 4

is a hard one, im goin to say i believe fully in it.... everything we do is only what our past situations multiplyed together would do.... thats all it can be because thats who we are.We do not have free will, but it feels like we do, everything we do is determined before hand.
This doesnt mean that we should not have blame, however, because we still do make the decisions ourselves, but it is a result of the past.

hope that made sense? xxxx

Answer 5

Determinism states that if we know the position and state of everything at a given point in time, we can extrapolate exact knowledge of the past and the future.
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle states that we can never know the exact position and velocity of anything, there will always be some error margin in the totals. This has been (to the best of our current level of knowledge) proved.

Determinism is impossible.

Answer 6

In a world with free will I don't believe determinism exists. What would be the point in being alive otherwise?

Answer 7

Determinism is a disproved theory,as far as our advances will allow us to formulate ,and prove the theory to the extent of knowledge gained.
we cannot know or prove or theorize, on what we cannot determine.
as hindsight is the only perfect science, speculation is not.
LF

Answer 8

No I share the existentialist view on life.
If there was no meaning in the universe or in life,
then it necessity to create our own meaning.
existence comes into being before essence.

Answer 9

THE ONLY THING THAT IS 'DETERMINED' IS PERFECTION .... and that PERFECTION is made up of ALL DUALITY ...WHICH ARE ONE and the SAME!