33 Of Deterministic and Stochastic

You are a sentient being, self-aware and perceptive, full of feelings, thoughts, memories, emotions, beliefs and opinions. Usually, these tend to be more or less stable entities, formed and developed over time. But life is also full of chance and imperfections—uncertainty, inconsistency, even error. How do you believe chance affects your daily life? Do you think that life is fundamentally deterministic, causally determined by preceding events and natural law, or is it essentially stochastic, statistical in nature, random, predominantly run by chance and probability? Do you think your preference affects your life and how you live it? Debates on such questions over the ages are legion. And yet, eons worth of thought and argument have generated more heat than light, and scant resolution.