Like, we’ll probably find out that eating boogers actually makes you immune to select illnesses or something crazy like that.

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    15 days ago

    But we know for sure that the universe is not deterministic.

    From a fundamental level, it is probabilistic.

    Simple experiments can show this chaotic action.
    Take for example the dripping tap experiment. The time for next drop cannot be predicted by knowing the timing of the previous drops!
    This is not a random process, there is a pattern, but it is also clearly not deterministic.

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      15 days ago

      We can’t predict it because we can’t possibly know everything. But unpredictably isn’t the same as randomness or implies nondeterministic behaviour.

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        14 days ago

        If you are really interested, look into the uncertainty principle.

        At this point in science we are as convinced as is possible to be; that the universe is probabilistic in nature.