Like, we’ll probably find out that eating boogers actually makes you immune to select illnesses or something crazy like that.

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    I would say deterministic rather than predictable.

    I think the universe is deterministic and that there isn’t something inside our heads that bypasses determinism and creates free will.

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      But we know for sure that the universe is not deterministic.

      From a fundamental level, it is probabilistic.

      Simple experiments can show this chaotic action.
      Take for example the dripping tap experiment. The time for next drop cannot be predicted by knowing the timing of the previous drops!
      This is not a random process, there is a pattern, but it is also clearly not deterministic.

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        We can’t predict it because we can’t possibly know everything. But unpredictably isn’t the same as randomness or implies nondeterministic behaviour.