Causal Determinism

Think of a giant line of millions of dominoes stretching forever. When the first one falls, every single other domino must fall in a specific way because of the one before it. This idea says the whole world is like those dominoes, and everything that happens today happened because of what happened yesterday. Even the thoughts in your head are like tiny dominoes clicking together. The world is a very organized place where nothing happens by total accident.

Every domino falls because the one before it fell. You are not outside the chain. You are one of its most beautiful pieces.

Causal Determinism is the metaphysical backbone of classical physics: the state of the universe at time t is a direct function of t-1. Implies a singular unfolding World Line. Neurologically challenges the ghost in the machine: if neurons fire on electrochemical gradients, choice is the subjective experience of a biological calculation.

SOUND: The steady ticking rhythm of a grandfather clock.

SMELL: Freshly baked bread that smells exactly like the ingredients used.

TASTE: The predictable sourness of a lemon.

TOUCH: The vibration of a machine working perfectly.

SIGHT: A ball rolling down a hill in a straight line.

BODY: Your heart beating without you asking it to: the body as domino chain.

Music: Vienna by Billy Joel

Music: Liars & Tigers & Bears by Megan Moroney

Music: Backwards by Tame Impala

Part of Free Will & Fate — PHILOSOPHY — Education Revelation