Though I am opposed to the Deterministic outlook on the universe, I do consider science to be the best bastion of knowledge there is. The discussions in class remained me of a scientific theory that allows for free will and determinism to coexist, to some extent.
The theory starts with saying that each decision is more or less yes or no choice, or a series of said choices. The theory suggests that an alternate universe is created at very decision; one created for how things could have been in very possible instance. For example: there are universes were the Nazis won World War Two, and ones that are identical to ours, but Joe had a cup of tea instead of his usual cup of coffee. The absolute number of alternate universes is unfathomable.
So what does this mean in a philosophical sense? It means that free will does exist, but only absolute free will is present in the universe that had the first decision. Everything else is just a reaction to that. So the people living in these
alternate universes have some free will, but they are not responsible for the actions in their past since that was already determined by their counterparts in their parent universe and so forth. However is it allows people to continue to make decisions on their own free will.
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