DETERMINISM AND CAUSALITY

The concept of determinism is a very significant, important and useful concept in which to describe the highly inevitable course of events, and situations one finds when one is examining the processes that occur in the universe generally, but in particular events it can easily be found that in the causality of processes that chance, accident, and intentional causes play a minor role in the sense of being altering causes which effect the grand sweep of determinism into particular directions which are slightly different from the original deterministic course of events, but they always remain as minor alterations. Reality it can be said is mostly deterministic, but with a relatively minor element of chance effecting events, these chance occurences which alter the course of events need to be examined further, and they need to be described in more depth. The concepts of chance, and causality and how they alter the course of events are partly described in the many chaos theories that have been developed recently by a lot of thinkers in the field. One cannot deny that certain forces, laws, and rules exist within nature and its processes to such an extent that this fact makes the course of events in nature largely deterministic, and predictable. The causes, or incidents which alter the course of events in a slightly underministic manner are usually unforseen accidents of all kinds, and also the wilful behaviour of certain people and their conduct, as well as all the other causes from biological life in general, but these types of causes are usually minor. Events on the grand scale in nature such as the formation of solar systems and so on remain largely deterministic, and inevitable. The existence of human beings, as well as other forms of biological life is mostly inevitable in general and is due to prior processes and so therefore cannot be viewed as accidental, but certain avenues as well as aspects of progress within biological life maybe partly accidental, and due to unforseen events of a minor kind that occured and made things develop in a certain way. But the existence of biological life is largely inevitable, and deterministic, and even if humans did not exist it is clearly self-evident that there would still be plenty of other forms of biological life around, which there is.