Determinism vs Randomness
"Had a few different cards been dealt, I could ..." When I read that sentence yesterday evening in my bed, as good my novel is (and it is), I stopped and looked at my ceiling (it's a beautiful one, I painted it myself). As every time I come across similar sentences, I thought of the old fight between determinism and randomness. When I was younger, I once came to the conclusion that:
Randomness does not exist. It only describes our inability to embrace the complexity of the universe. By knowing at a given moment every particle position and speed, we could simply foresee the future.
Yes, I know, I already talked about Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which destroys this theory I thought was mine (cf my rule#6 previous post).
I always wondered why no one ever thought of that before me... Well today, thanks again Wikipedia, I found out that this theory of mine... is in fact not mine at all. Or at least I wasn't the first
