The only correct position on determinism is Anti-Determinism.
People keep aaking me what Anti-Determinism means, and wrongly assuming what it does. Heres what it means:
Anti-Determinism makes three profound claims about determinism (the thesis that all things in reality are ultimately determined/nonrandom).
1: Determinism does not Exist.
The universe could not exist if it was not initialized randomly. Even making an exception for this, quantum mechanics provides hard evidence of indeterminism with repeated empirical testing.
Even if you pretend determinism exists, in our day to day life, its still as if it does not exist, since many things appear statistically random due to chaos.
2: Determinism is irrelevant to Free Will.
Free Will is defined as the freedom to enact ones will and intentions. This is a emergent capability of intelligent agents, completely unrelated to the status of determinism in our universe. Free Will is the kind of freedom and will needed for moral responsibility, which is unrelated to determinism.
3: Determinism and Fixation on Deterministic framing is psychologically harmful
Im out of time for my post, but theres evidence of this.
Posted Oct 2, 2025, 7:50 PM UTC