Determinism
Rabbi Michael Avraham Shlita, Shalom Rabbi!
My name is A., and I really enjoy the books you have written (the ones I have read). I have already written to you about your book ‘God Plays Dice,’ whose impact on the future of the nation is decisive, and in my opinion also the two books that followed it: The Science of Freedom, and Truth and Unstable.
I would like to ask what you think about the following sentence from a philosophical-logical-scientific point of view.
Nature is not fixed in its results. One situation naturally allows for more than one development.
In other words, nature does not contradict a space of possibilities that will be chosen randomly.
I would appreciate it if you would express your opinion, and I hope it won’t be too much of a bother.
With gratitude and appreciation
The above.
Hello.
Chen Chen. If you read the Science of Freedom you will see there that my opinion is completely different. Nature is deterministic, and given given circumstances there is only one possible outcome. This is except at the micro level in quantum theory.
Thank you.
May I ask two more questions.
A. In the text of your blog about the High Holy Days, the phrase appears: God is almost not involved in the world. I wanted to understand the word almost
B. Is the argument that contradicts your words perceived by you as a logical error, or as a mistake?
Thanks for your comment.
Certainly not a logical error. It just doesn't seem empirically to be involved. But of course there are always possible points where he intervenes and we don't notice. That's why I wrote “almost”.
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