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Since the dawn of the industrial age, a recurrent fear has been that technological change will spawn mass unemployment. However, neoclassical economists disagreed, predicting that this would not happen because people would find other jobs, albeit possibly after a long period of painful adjustment. By and large, that prediction has proven to be correct.
Two hundred years of breathtaking innovation since the dawn of the industrial age have produced rising living standards for ordinary people in much of the world, with no sharply rising trend for unemployment. Yes, there have been many problems, notably bouts of staggering inequality and increasingly horrific wars. On balance, however, throughout much of the world, people live longer, work much fewer hours, and lead generally healthier lives.
But there is no denying that technological change nowadays has accelerated, potentially leading to deeper and more profound dislocations. In a much-cited 1983 article, the great economist Wassily Leontief worried that the pace of modern technological change was so rapid that many workers, unable to adjust, would simply become obsolete, like horses after the rise of the automobile. Are millions of workers headed for the glue factory?
As Asian wages rise, factory managers are already looking for opportunities to replace employees with robots, even in China. As the advent of cheap smart phones fuels a boom in Internet access, online purchases of goods will eliminate a vast number of retail jobs. Back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that, worldwide, technological change could easily lead to the loss of 5-10 million jobs each year. Fortunately, until now, market economies have proved stunningly flexible in absorbing the impact of these changes.
A peculiar but perhaps instructive example comes from the world of professional chess. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, many feared that players would become obsolete if and when computers could play chess better than humans. Finally, in 1997, the IBM computer Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Gary Kasparov in a short match. Soon, potential chess sponsors began to balk at paying millions of dollars to host championship matches between humans. Isn't the computer the world champion, they asked?
Today, the top few chess players still earn a very good living, but less than they did at the peak of the profession. Meanwhile, in real (inflation-adjusted) terms, second-tier players earn much less money from tournaments and exhibitions than they did in the 1970s.
Nevertheless, a curious thing has happened: Far more people make a living as professional chess players today than ever before. Thanks partly to the availability of computer programs and online matches, there has been a mini-boom in chess interest among young people in many countries.
Many parents see chess for their children as an attractive alternative to mindless video games. A few countries, such as Armenia and Moldova, have actually legislated the teaching of chess in schools. As a result, thousands of players nowadays earn surprisingly good incomes teaching chess to children, whereas in the days before Deep Blue, only a few hundred players could truly make a living as professionals.
In many cities in the United States, for example, good chess teachers earn upward of $100-$150 per hour. Yesterday's unemployed chess bum can bring in a six-figure income if he or she is willing to take on enough work. In fact, this is one example where technology might actually have contributed to equalizing incomes. Second-tier chess players who are good teachers often earn as much as top tournament players – or more.
Of course, the factors governing the market for chess incomes are complex, and I have vastly over-simplified the situation. But the basic point is that the market has a way of transforming jobs and opportunities in ways that no one can predict.
Technological change is not all upside, and transitions can indeed be painful. An unemployed autoworker in Detroit may be fully capable of retraining to become a hospital technician. Yet, after years of taking pride in his work, he could be very reluctant to make the switch.
I know a chess grandmaster who, 20 years ago, prided himself on his success at winning money in tournaments. He vowed that he would never end up teaching children "how horsey moves" (the reference being to the knight in chess games). But now he does exactly that, earning more from teaching "how horsey moves" than he ever did as a competitive chess player. Still, it beats being sent to the knacker.
Of course, this time technological change could be different, and one should be careful in extrapolating the experience of the last two centuries to the next two. For one thing, mankind will be confronted with more complex economic and moral questions as technology accelerates. Still, even as technological change accelerates, nothing suggests that a massive upward shift in unemployment will ensue over the next few decades.
Of course, some increase in unemployment as a result of more rapid technological change is certainly likely, especially in places such as Europe, where a plethora of rigidities inhibit smooth adjustment. For now, however, the high unemployment of the past several years should be mainly attributed to the financial crisis, and should ultimately retreat toward historical benchmark levels. Humans are not horsies.
Kenneth Rogoff, a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is a professor of economics and public policy at Harvard University. THE DAILY STAR publishes this commentary in collaboration with Project Syndicate © (www.project-syndicate.org).
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I'm kinda getting burned out on Fantasy MMOrpgs latley and kinda want to mess around with a Sci-fi MMO. First that comes to mind is deffinetly Eve. I played it a few times in free trials back in the day but always got pulled away to a Fantasy MMO from friends. It seemed really good though. Now i guess the real question is, not how long it takes to advance, but if i have to stay on for hours at a time to play. ( for example. like pvp and other content. ) im asking because i don't have hours and hours to play consistantly anymore and sometimes i have to pull away from the computer at moments here and there to do quick task. Would i be able to play Eve?
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Joined: 11/03/05
A battle is won but the war rages on.
EVE is as time consuming as you make it.
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Originally posted by JthX
Me and my brother run a small mining corporation and are only on for a few hours a day, tops. It works fine, every now and then we have to jump on to update a skill queue, but that's the only time it imposes at all.
Originally posted by rainwolf
What purpose does mining serve?
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Originally posted by JthX
Time consuming? Depends on what YOU do.
PVP - Generally a cat and mouse game, time wasted on target acquisation/assesment. Actual combat is usually quick.
PVE (Combat) - 1-2 Hours per day is sufficient
PVE (Mining) - 2-4 hours tops
Industry (MFG Only) OR Science (research/BP copying) - 30mins setting up production/research queue, 1hr moving materials
Industry (Space farmville/Planetary Interaction) - 1 hour picking up stuff
Market - About 1-2 hours, time mostly used on market analysis (ie someone playing with the market)
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Originally posted by JthX
We produce bulk orders of the raw materials needed to build everything that is used in the EVE Universe. We strip mine asteroid belts and refine the ores into materials. We then ship those materials to a nearby trading hub where industrialist characters use them to build ships, weapons, ammunition, other modules. Players use those things to wage war.
Every player ship that gets blown up was built by someone, somewhere, and they all used minerals provided by miners.
Sounds awesome. Might give it a shot
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...did the little piggy cry wee-wee-wee all the way home?
...does a former drill sergeant make a terrible therapist?
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...was Honest Abe really honest?
I kid, I kid. (EVE is the MMORPG you can pay to *not* play.)
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Originally posted by JthX
EVE attracts a lot of people who have jobs and lives, because the time-based skill system relives you of a whole subset of the MMO grind: there is no level grinding at all. You dont have to do stuff you dont really want to do just to level up.
It will feel weird at first, but after a while you wont want it any other way. Now I just find the posts of people who want to level grind incomprehensible. Who likes grinding so much? Why would you want that?
There's nothing forcing you to play long sessions in EVE. A few types of PvP (eg: large fleet, extended roams in hostile space) will be pretty much barred to you if you can't stay on for 3-4 hours, but there are other types of PvP available. You can join Red vs Blue for the nearest thing EVE offers to "Arena Combat", you could just be a pirate in lo-sec space logging in now and then for an hour or two in the hope of a juicy target. There are many options for casual PvP.
However, what with time based skilling and all, your "advancement" in EVE (money, assets, friends, connections, reputation, experience) depends on you doing stuff. The more you do, the more you will advance yourself. It's worth noting that of the 7 pillars of EVE advancement, only 2 (Skillpoints, ISK) show up on your character sheet. The rest are about achieving your goals and interacting with other players. This is probably going to be the biggest difference you'll find between EVE and the fantasy MMOs you're used to.
PS PM me if you want a 21-day trial buddy invite. I'll send it to you along with an explaination of what the benefits of this are. It's a good way to get a head-start the game. I recommend creating a single-use webmail acount for this with a different user name and PW to everything else you use.
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It varies alot, of course, but if you want to be in a big alliance, be on OPs (space raid pvp), have multiple ship setups at different locations, rat to get ISK for ships and stuff, perhaps produce a few items then it takes a shitload of time, especially in 0.0 space. Most of it is logistics and research to be competitive.
That is my experience at least, beeing in an alliance in the Northern Coalition. I'm sure there are less time consuming ways and methods but all in all 0.0 pvp takes alot of time.
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the real action is definitely in 0.0 in the various Corps/alliances that exist there.. so to have the most fun .. imo .. at least.. you have to join one of them.. .. as for time consuming.. yes.. definitely.. even a simple fast frig/cruiser Roam can take several hours.. mostly a case of hit hard and fast and run like hell.. .. its fun.. but PVP in Eve is so varied.. i couldnt begin to cover it all.. but its all 'time consuming' .. so you need to set aside 3 - 4 hours ideally to take part..
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Empire space is like City - developed infrastructure, the buzz and many opportunities.
Null sec on the other hand is the Countryside - harsh, silent and hostile...also full of rednecks, hehe
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EVE Online is like any other MMO; the more you get involved with other players and build relationships, the more time you tend to put into the game.
You can play it solo and do a great variety of activities on your own schedule. You can hook up with one or two other players and do stuff on a schedule or just whenever you all happen to be online. You can get into an existing corporation and have some expectations placed on you to help out in certain operations at certain times, or to fill a certain quota, etc. You can also get into 0.0 activities, which almost invariably involve an alliance of corporations working together where you very definitely have expectations placed on you to do something constructive for the alliance. Defend the alliance space, help out in expanding alliance space, contribute to the coffers, perhaps even be encouraged to get into a specific set of skills and ship types. The alliance players can get pretty serious.
If you want to keep your time investment down, do what the miner said; mine. That's where I spend the bulk of my time. I play solo while still chatting with folks from a corporation that I used to belong to. I alternate mining with some NPC hunting and some planetary industry. All are available within one star system and you just do whichever you like.
Note that EVE Online's mining does not require your participation. You just put your ship somewhere, turn on the mining equipment and it starts mining for you. You babysit the ship and eventually change ships to transport your ore from the mining site to a space station. Having two displays on your computer is a very good idea. I tend to read the web or watch Netflix while mining.
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Mission running and complexes are another way to earn ISK in EVE more or less on your own schedule if mining isn't your forte.
(Every time someone fits a ship with a mining laser a kitten dies somewhere in the universe)
Arrogant, Condescending, Dismissive, Elitist, "Meany", you speak as if these are bad things?
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It's as time consuming as any other hobby.
I logged in for about 10 minutes today and later on tonight it'll be another 5 minutes, so that's a total of 15 minutes a day. I don`t need to do that everyday and only do that because that`s how I set up my planets.
If I have more than an hour to kill but less than two I`ll relax and mine asteroids while examining the market.
If I have more than 2 hours I`ll do something shady which I don`t like to talk about in public... or play the market... or spend a relaxing time exploring... or run a mission or two but it`s been a while since I`ve done that... or ship product around for profit... It depends on how I feel.
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I'd rather be lucky than smart.
so far, every one of these responses is something you should take into consideration. They're all honest, straight forward, and most importantly, they're all pretty much right.
Eve is and always has been what you make of it. If you don't have much time to play, you should consider that when you make your decision on how to build your character, and where your character operates from, and who you consort with.
I've played since 2004, and I used to have all the time in the world for large OPs (space raids, as stated before) and long winded free roams and even my share of piracy (ok so that's an understatement, I did way too much pirating) --
nowadays, I have a family, a job, and a social life, and I never realized until now how perfect EVE is for changing lifestyles or even just lifestyles that don't have too much room for gaming. I log on now to switch skills and to do some exploring (i really like the new scan probe mechanics and interface) and I get much fulfillment out of finding ruins, anomolies, gas clouds, hacking sites, secret/hidden NPC conclaves, etc...
In terms of PVP, i think it's a bit harder to come by as a solo player with little time on my hands. You don't simply jump in a ship, undock, and start pewpewing at the first player you see. On the otherhand, if you join Red vs Blue or sit outside a market hub main production/market station, you'll find plenty of opportunities for pvp. I don't enjoy those avenues personally, as it feels more sanctioned. It feels like an arena or duel instead. usually an even match, and usually agreed terms and conditions, as well as limitations on ships to use... That's not real PVP imo. Especially in EVE... There has to be a certain amount of tension for me to get the rush. I have to have a fear of losing my ship, or the excitement of knowing my opponent is afraid to lose their ship.
It's the gritty nature of EVE, and once you make your first real legitimate kill, and then loot the leftover peices of ship and their cargo and claim it as yours, you will understand ;-)
This is not a troll, flame, or anything else worth banning me over. It is simply my pure opinion, and I have a right to share it.
Joined: 10/04/06
A Good Sandbox isn't about your characters abilities. It's about the players ability.
If you want to move up the corp ladder, it's about as hardcore as it gets. Or you can log in for 20 min a day a just do PI. That's the beauty of EVE.
When WOW first came out, the first players in that game were pretty hardcore, and grinded like crazy to be the best. However, the truth is, the players that chose not to play WOW and played EVE instead were the true hardcore nerd freaks. You could easily do nothing else for months on end, and many did.
There is a ghost of that game that still remains.
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I'd rather be lucky than smart.
Originally posted by qazyman
A ghost of what game? EVE or WoW?
As those were the only 2 you mentioned, I assume you meant one of them? ;)
This is not a troll, flame, or anything else worth banning me over. It is simply my pure opinion, and I have a right to share it.
Originally posted by demolishIX
That's exactly what I was going to post when I saw the thread title.
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A Good Sandbox isn't about your characters abilities. It's about the players ability.
Originally posted by mm0wiggins
LOL a really fair point as both have changed in different ways, but I was talking about EVE. I was thinking about spending weeks to scan down deep safe spots and gate bookmarks through territory you thought might be safer, and the hours upon hours it would take to do the most basic things.
I did realize I was leaving a lot of games out of the mix. It's just that I'm amazed how gaming always comes back to CCP and Blizzard, for me anyway. (I am a big Valve fan too, but who has the time) With SC2, Diablo 3, WOD and Incarna, I don't see it changing anytime soon.


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Zen and the Art of Shaving a Cat
Lambing is all done, I've done my author 'thing' in Atlanta, so now it's time to get down to the really important business of spring: shaving our barn cat Pumpkin.
Pumpkin has long, thick hair that mats badly over the winter; by spring it's formed tight weaves that pull at his skin and make it hard for him to scratch or clean himself. Last spring our friend Amelia helped shave the cat, but she's crewing on an 80-ft sailboat off the coast of Maine...some excuse.
Since Melissa is skilled with the clippers, she needed unskilled labor (me) to hold the cat. I was afraid, very afraid. While he's friendly, Pumpkin is a barn cat, and doesn't take kindly to being told what to do, or to being restrained.
I dressed in jeans and a sweatshirt, found a thick towel, and opened a can of nummy cat food (as a bribe for the cat, obviously.)
I was ready.
We sat on the front step and the first side went well as I held and Melissa shaved. But the novelty soon wore off, and Pumpkin wanted to leave. There was much cat wriggling, wrapping of cat in towel, more cat wriggling, more wrapping, more cat wriggling, and several near-escapes. When his efforts to escape didn't work, he started growling low in his throat, not a friendly sound.
Somehow, we finished the job without any bites or scratches, and ended up shaving off mats so large they could have doubled as a redhaired man's toupee.
I was so proud of myself. Look at me--I'm a farmer and I shaved the cat. I'm brave and fearless in the face of sharp claws and a growling feline.
But then I realized that all I did was face something that scared me, and people do this every day. People confront bosses or neighbors or deliver bad news or give speeches or just do something that's outside their comfort zone. I don't think we give ourselves enough credit for all the scary things we do.
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Supermicro providers of an application-optimized, high-performance server solutions, released its Eight-Way Enterprise Server solution with up to sixty-four Xeon processor cores in 5U with 80 cores coming soon, and its SuperBlade system that supports 20 GPUs in a single 7U blade enclosure, today at CeBIT 2011 in Hannover, Germany (Hall 2, Stand F38).
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The Winnebago County Integrity Task Force has been called in to investigate.
Belvidere residents are cleaning up the debris, but city officials warn the clean up could be a month-long process.
More than 300 motorcyclists enjoyed a Sunday ride through the stateline for a good cause.
New coach Chuck Leonard hopes to make the Bucs contenders again for NIC-10 football titles.
Chuck Leonard is the new head football coach of the Belvidere Bucs.
Belvidere's Troy Vandenbroek knows what can happen when a line drive comes screaming back to the mound.
Belvidere-Two dangerous gang members wanted for murder still remain at large and they are probably still in the Stateline area.
Lutheran crushes Belvidere 71-46
Belvidere's Mike Hearn has been elected to the Illinois Football Coaches Hall Of Fame.
Belvidere defeated Rockford Christian 48-24 Wednesday at the 3A Belvidere Regional.
The financial challenges and uncertainy of the Belvidere School District have led both head football coaches to resign.
Belvidere finished up the regular season with a win over Jefferson Wednesday night.
Belvidere thrashes East, wins NIC-10 title
Kane Steger is the background of a Belvidere team that might win the NIC-10 championship.
Belvidere thumps Belvidere North 62-46
Belvidere comes back to beat Boylan 68-62
Belvidere crushes Guilford 67-48
Belvidere beat Hononegah 46-43 Tuesday night.
Belvidere tops Belvidere North 48-36
Scott Leber says the Belvidere Bucs have what it takes to win the NIC-10 basketball title.
Belvidere beat Auburn 62-46 Tuesday to claim sole possession of first place.
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Belvidere knocked off Boylan Thursday for the first time in almost 25 years.
Belvidere beat Freeport 49-37 Friday in boys basketball.
Guilford upset Belvidere 58-56 Friday in boys basketball.
Belvidere beat Hononegah 74-66 Friday in boys basketball.
Belvidere baseball standout Troy Vandenbroek will attend Eastern Illinois.
Freeport wins NIC-10 swimming sectionals
Belvidere beats Belvidere North 21-13 for a playoff shot
Boylan defeated Belvidere Friday 57-0.
Belvidere beats East in a double-overtime thriller 46-44
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Rapper Kanye West doesn't really talk about his relationship with Kim Kardashian, unless he's in the studio.
Unlike the E! star, who offers tweets and photos so fans can keep up with Kimye's romance, West prefers to solely express his love through music (Exhibit A: his song "Way Too Cold," formerly known as "Theraflu").
So it might not be too surprising to hear that West has written another song about Kim for his upcoming album Cruel Summer (out September 4), but the name is not exactly what people might expect.
Who does Kanye West party with when Kim's not around?
No, something like "My Sweet Kim" or "Dear Kim" just isn't Kanye's style. Instead, the artist opted to title the latest track about his ladylove, "Perfect Bitch."
"I wrote the song Perfect Bitch about Kim," West tweeted earlier today. (Side note: the only person he follows on Twitter is Kim—what an honor!)
A source tells Sway's Universe that the song—which is said to have the same melody as the 1937 composition "Carmina Burana"—describes finding the perfect woman by making numerous references to Kim (aw!)...and his ex Amber Rose (uh-oh).
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Lagos — Heavy rains have unleashed floods in parts of Nigeria, testing the country's emergency preparedness one year after its worst flooding in decades.
Some 35,000 people have been affected, most of them in five states, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The 2012 floods affected around 7 million people.
According to Nigeria's National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA), this year's floods have displaced some 600 people and caused one fatality in the northern Kano State, and about 20 bodies were unearthed at a cemetery in the state's Yan Kaba area. In Katsina State, also in the north, 55 farms were inundated by heavy rains.
NEMA spokesman Ibrahim Farinloye said early warning and rapid relocation of communities helped prevent greater loss of lives.
Forty communities in flood-prone areas in southeastern Benue State have been relocated by authorities, who have also urged people in other vulnerable areas to move. Farinloye said the Borno, Adamawa and Taraba states in the northeast were flashpoints.
"We have been able to contain any adverse humanitarian effects. All the affected states have been able to respond adequately. So far the response has been positive, but we cannot say we have a perfect system," Farinloye told IRIN.
"The southern states, especially the coastal states, are at risk. We are not only looking at the states [predicted to experience flooding]. We are working on all the states, and all the areas that need [assistance] will be covered by NEMA," he said.
The flooding has thus far been containable and has occurred only in localities that have seen similar flooding in the past.
More rains than 2012
This year's flood-hit states are still recovering from last year's flooding, which was Nigeria's worst in more than 40 years.
The Nigerian meteorological department has predicted more rains this year than in 2012.
"Last year they [authorities] took us to a camp, but after the water subsided, they just let us go," said Niger Delta University student Victor Losaride. "I'm worried about what will happen this year. If it [floods] again, I don't know what will happen ... I hope there won't be flooding this year."
Kabiru Usama Bakare, who lives in the northern Jos region, said he received little government assistance when he was displaced by the 2012 floods. He also says no flood preparations are being undertaken in his locality.
"I lost my wife and five children to the floods last year. I lost my entire family. I'm still trying to build my house all by myself," he told IRIN. "We have not seen any work going here in anticipation of the flood. People are already moving out of the area so as not to be caught unawares."
Lessons learned
The Nigerian Red Cross (NRC) said it had improved its emergency response with lessons learned from last year's disaster. Spokesman Nwankpa O. Nwankpa told IRIN that NRC had trained 22,000 volunteers across the country and stocked warehouses with relief items.
"Most people who suffered in 2012 was because they did not know what to do during flooding. We have educated and trained them on what do to," he said. "Everybody in Nigeria has better awareness of flooding than last year."
Farinloye said NEMA has urged dam management officials to lower water levels early enough to minimize flooding risks.
"They shouldn't wait until the level of the water has got to the level of [breaching the dams] before they release the water. We told them to release it on a gradual basis once it goes beyond the normal level," he said.
Communities along the river banks have been relocated to higher ground, said Farinloye, explaining that flood-prone communities have been trained and provided with basic equipment to aid quick evacuation.
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Determinism is the philosophical proposition that every event, including human cognition and behaviour, decision and action, is causally determined by an unbroken chain of prior occurrences. With numerous historical debates, many varieties and philosophical positions on the subject of determinism exist from traditions throughout the world.
It is a popular misconception that determinism necessarily entails that humanity or individual humans have no influence on the future and its events (a position known as fatalism); however, determinists believe that the level to which human beings have influence over their future is itself dependent on present and past. Causal determinism is associated with, and relies upon, the ideas of materialism and causality. Some of the main philosophers who have dealt with this issue are Steven M. Cahn, Omar Khayyám, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Leibniz, David Hume, Baron d'Holbach (Paul Heinrich Dietrich), Pierre-Simon Laplace, Arthur Schopenhauer, William James, Friedrich Nietzsche and, more recently, John Searle, Ted Honderich, and Daniel Dennett.
Mecca Chiesa notes that the probabilistic or selectionistic determinism of B.F. Skinner comprised a wholly separate conception of determinism that was not mechanistic at all. A mechanistic determinism would assume that every event has an unbroken chain of prior occurrences, but a selectionistic or probabilistic model does not.
The exact meaning of the term determinism has historically been subject to several interpretations. Some, called Incompatibilists, view determinism and free will as mutually exclusive. The belief that free will is an illusion is known as Hard Determinism. Others, labeled Compatibilists, (or Soft Determinists) believe that the two ideas can be coherently reconciled. Incompatibilists who accept free will but reject determinism are called Libertarians — not to be confused with the political sense. Most of this disagreement is due to the fact that the definition of free will, like that of determinism, varies. Some feel it refers to the metaphysical truth of independent agency, whereas others simply define it as the feeling of agency that humans experience when they act.
Ted Honderich, in his book How Free Are You? - The Determinism Problem gives the following summary of the theory of determinism:
In its central part, determinism is the theory that our choices and decisions and what gives rise to them are effects. What the theory comes to therefore depends on what effects are taken to be... [I]t is effects that seem fundamental to the subject of determinism and how it affects our lives.
Causal (or nomological) determinism is the thesis that future events are necessitated by past and present events combined with the laws of nature. Such determinism is sometimes illustrated by the thought experiment of Laplace's demon. Imagine an entity that knows all facts about the past and the present, and knows all natural laws that govern the universe. Such an entity might, under certain circumstances, be able to use this knowledge to foresee the future, down to the smallest detail. Simon-Pierre Laplace's determinist dogma (as described by Stephen Hawking) is generally referred to as "scientific determinism" and predicated on the supposition that all events have a cause and effect and the precise combination of events at a particular time engender a particular outcome. This causal determinism has a direct relationship with predictability. (Perfect) predictability implies strict determinism, but lack of predictability does not necessarily imply lack of determinism. Limitations on predictability could alternatively be caused by factors such as a lack of information or excessive complexity. An example of this could be found by looking at a bomb dropping from the air. Through mathematics, we can predict the time the bomb will take to reach the ground, and we also know what will happen once the bomb explodes. Any small errors in prediction might arise from our not measuring some factors, such as puffs of wind or variations in air temperature along the bomb's path.
Logical determinism is the notion that all propositions, whether about the past, present or future, are either true or false. The problem of free will, in this context, is the problem of how choices can be free, given that what one does in the future is already determined as true or false in the present. This is refered to as the problem of future contingents.
Additionally, there is environmental determinism, also known as climatic or geographical determinism which holds the view that the physical environment, rather than social conditions, determines culture. Those who believe this view say that humans are strictly defined by stimulus-response (environment-behavior) and cannot deviate. Key proponents of this notion have included Ellen Churchill Semple, Ellsworth Huntington, Thomas Griffith Taylor and possibly Jared Diamond, although his status as an environmental determinist is debated.
Biological determinism is the idea that all behavior, belief, and desire are fixed by our genetic endowment. There are other theses on determinism, including cultural determinism and the narrower concept of psychological determinism. Combinations and syntheses of determinist theses, e.g. bio-environmental determinism, are even more common. Addiction Specialist Dr. Drew Pinski relates addiction to biological determinism:
"Absolutely. It's a complex disorder, but it clearly has a genetic basis. In fact, in the definition of the disease, we consider genetics absolutely a crucial piece of the definition. So the definition as stated in a consensus conference that was published in the early '90s, it's a genetic disorder with a biological basis. The hallmark is the progressive use in the face of adverse consequence, and then finally denial."
Theological determinism is the thesis that there is a God who determines all that humans will do, either by knowing their actions in advance, via some form of omniscience or by decreeing their actions in advance. The problem of free will, in this context, is the problem of how our actions can be free, if there is a being who has determined them for us ahead of time.
In the story of the Indra's Net, the light that streams back and forth throughout the display is the analogy of karma. (Note that in popular Western usage, the word "karma" often refers to the concept of past good or bad actions resulting in like consequences.) In the Eastern context "Karma" refers to an action, or, more specifically, to an intentional action, and the Buddhist theory holds that every karma (every intentional action) will bear karmic fruit (produce an effect somewhere down the line). Volitional acts drive the universe. The consequences of this view often confound our ordinary expectations.
A shifting flow of probabilities for futures lies at the heart of theories associated with the Yi Jing (or I Ching, the Book of Changes). Probabilities take the center of the stage away from things and people. A kind of "divine" volition sets the fundamental rules for the working out of probabilities in the universe, and human volitions are always a factor in the ways that humans can deal with the real world situations one encounters. If one's situation in life is surfing on a tsunami, one still has some range of choices even in that situation. One person might give up, and another person might choose to struggle and perhaps to survive. The Yi Jing mentality is much closer to the mentality of quantum physics than to that of classical physics, and also finds parallelism in voluntarist or Existentialist ideas of taking one's life as one's project.
The followers of the philosopher Mozi made some early discoveries in optics and other areas of physics, ideas that were consonant with deterministic ideas.
Whether or not it is all-encompassing in so doing, Newtonian mechanics deals only with caused events, e.g.: If an object begins in a known position and is hit dead on by an object with some known velocity, then it will be pushed straight toward another predictable point. If it goes somewhere else, the Newtonians argue, one must question one's measurements of the original position of the object, the exact direction of the striking object, gravitational or other fields that were inadvertently ignored, etc. Then, they maintain, repeated experiments and improvements in accuracy will always bring one's observations closer to the theoretically predicted results. When dealing with situations on an ordinary human scale, Newtonian physics has been so enormously successful that it has no competition. But it fails spectacularly as velocities become some substantial fraction of the speed of light and when interactions at the atomic scale are studied. Before the discovery of quantum effects and other challenges to Newtonian physics, "uncertainty" was always a term that applied to the accuracy of human knowledge about causes and effects, and not to the causes and effects themselves.
A number of positions can be delineated:
In emergentist or generative philosophy of cognitive sciences and evolutionary psychology, free will does not exist. However an illusion of free will is experienced due to the generation of infinite behaviour from the interaction of finite-deterministic set of rules and parameters. Thus the unpredictability of the emerging behaviour from deterministic processes leads to a perception of free will, even though free will as an ontological entity does not exist.
As an illustration, the strategy board-games chess and Go have rigorous rules in which no information (such as cards' face-values) is hidden from either player and no random events (such as dice-rolling) happen within the game. Yet, chess and especially Go with its extremely simple deterministic rules, can still have an extremely large number of unpredictable moves. By analogy, emergentists or generativists suggest that the experience of free will emerges from the interaction of finite rules and deterministic parameters that generate infinite and unpredictable behaviour. Yet, if all these events were accounted for, and there were a known way to evaluate these events, the seemingly unpredictable behaviour would become predictable.
Dynamical-evolutionary psychology, cellular automata and the generative sciences, model emergent processes of social behaviour on this philosophy, showing the experience of free will as essentially a gift of ignorance or as a product of incomplete information.
Many mathematical models are deterministic. This is true of most models involving differential equations (notably, those measuring rate of change over time). Mathematical models that are not deterministic because they involve randomness are called stochastic. Because of sensitive dependence on initial conditions, some deterministic models may appear to behave non-deterministically; in such cases, a deterministic interpretation of the model may not be useful due to numerical instability and a finite amount of precision in measurement. Such considerations can motivate the consideration of a stochastic model when the underlying system is accurately modeled in the abstract by deterministic equations.
At atomic scales the paths of objects can only be predicted in a probabilistic way. The paths may not be exactly specified in a full quantum description of the particles; "path" is a classical concept which quantum particles do not exactly possess. The probability arises from the measurement of the perceived path of the particle. In some cases, a quantum particle may trace an exact path, and the probability of finding the particles in that path is one. The quantum development is at least as predictable as the classical motion, but it describes wave functions that cannot be easily expressed in ordinary language. In double-slit experiments, light is fired singly through a double-slit apparatus at a distant screen and does not arrive at a single point, nor do the photons arrive in a scattered pattern analogous to bullets fired by a fixed gun at a distant target. Instead, the light arrives in varying concentrations at widely separated points, and the distribution of its collisions can be calculated reliably. In that sense the behavior of light in this apparatus is deterministic, but there is no way to predict where in the resulting interference pattern an individual photon will make its contribution (see Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle).
Some have argued that, in addition to the conditions humans can observe and the laws we can deduce, there are hidden factors or "hidden variables" that determine absolutely in which order photons reach the detector screen. They argue that the course of the universe is absolutely determined, but that humans are screened from knowledge of the determinative factors. So, they say, it only appears that things proceed in a merely probabilistically-determinative way. In actuality, they proceed in an absolutely deterministic way. Although matters are still subject to some measure of dispute, quantum mechanics makes statistical predictions which would be violated if some local hidden variables existed. There have been a number of experiments to verify those predictions, and so far they do not appear to be violated, though many physicists believe better experiments are needed to conclusively settle the question. (See Bell test experiments.) It is possible, however, to augment quantum mechanics with non-local hidden variables to achieve a deterministic theory that is in agreement with experiment. An example is the Bohm interpretation of quantum mechanics.
On the macro scale it can matter very much whether a bullet arrives at a certain point at a certain time, as snipers are well aware; there are analogous quantum events that have macro- as well as quantum-level consequences. It is easy to contrive situations in which the arrival of an electron at a screen at a certain point and time would trigger one event and its arrival at another point would trigger an entirely different event. (See Schrödinger's cat.)
Even before the laws of quantum mechanics were fully developed, the phenomenon of radioactivity posed a challenge to determinism. A gram of uranium-238, a commonly occurring radioactive substance, contains some 2.5 x 1021 atoms. By all tests known to science these atoms are identical and indistinguishable. Yet about 12600 times a second one of the atoms in that gram will decay, giving off an alpha particle. This decay does not depend on external stimulus and no extant theory of physics predicts when any given atom will decay, with realistically obtainable knowledge. The uranium found on earth is thought to have been synthesized during a supernova explosion that occurred roughly 5 billion years ago. For determinism to hold, every uranium atom must contain some internal "clock" that specifies the exact time it will decay. And somehow the laws of physics must specify exactly how those clocks were set as each uranium atom was formed during the supernova collapse.
Exposure to alpha radiation can cause cancer. For this to happen, at some point a specific alpha particle must alter some chemical reaction in a cell in a way that results in a mutation. Since molecules are in constant thermal motion, the exact timing of the radioactive decay that produced the fatal alpha particle matters. If probabilistically determined events do have an impact on the macro events -- such as when a person who could have been historically important dies in youth of a cancer caused by a random mutation -- then the course of history is not determined from the dawn of time.
The time dependent Schrödinger equation gives the first time derivative of the quantum state. That is, it explicitly and uniquely predicts the development of the wave function with time.
So quantum mechanics is deterministic, provided that one accepts the wave function itself as reality (rather than as probability of classical coordinates). Since we have no practical way of knowing the exact magnitudes, and especially the phases, in a full quantum mechanical description of the causes of an observable event, this turns out to be philosophically similar to the "hidden variable" doctrine.
According to some, quantum mechanics is more strongly ordered than Classical Mechanics, because while Classical Mechanics is chaotic, quantum mechanics is not. For example, the classical problem of three bodies under a force such as gravity is not integrable, while the quantum mechanical three body problem is tractable and integrable, using the Faddeev Equations. That is, the quantum mechanical problem can always be solved to a given accuracy with a large enough computer of predetermined precision, while the classical problem may require arbitrarily high precision, depending on the details of the motion. This does not mean that quantum mechanics describes the world as more deterministic, unless one already considers the wave function to be the true reality. Even so, this does not get rid of the probabilities, because we can't do anything without using classical descriptions, but it assigns the probabilities to the classical approximation, rather than to the quantum reality.
Asserting that quantum mechanics is deterministic by treating the wave function itself as reality implies a single wave function for the entire universe, starting at the big bang. Such a "wave function of everything" would carry the probabilities of not just the world we know, but every other possible world that could have evolved from the big bang. For example, large voids in the distributions of galaxies are believed by many cosmologists to have originated in quantum fluctuations during the big bang. (See cosmic inflation and primordial fluctuations.) If so, the "wave function of everything" would carry the possibility that the region where our Milky Way galaxy is located could have been a void and the Earth never existed at all. (See large-scale structure of the cosmos.)
Assume: All events have causes, and their causes are all prior events. There is no cycle of events such that an event (possibly indirectly) causes itself.
The picture this gives us is that Event AN is preceded by AN-1, which is preceded by AN-2, and so forth.
Under these assumptions, two possibilities seem clear, and both of them question the validity of the original assumptions:
Under this analysis the original assumption must have something wrong with it. It can be fixed by admitting one exception, a creation event (either the creation of the original event or events, or the creation of the infinite series of events) that is itself not a caused event in the sense of the word "caused" used in the formulation of the original assumption. Some agency, which many systems of thought call God, creates space, time, and the entities found in the universe by means of some process that is analogous to causation but is not causation as we know it. This solution to the original difficulty has led people to question whether there is any reason for there only being one divine quasi-causal act, whether there have not been a number of events that have occurred outside the ordinary sequence of events, events that may be called miracles. Another possibility is that the "last event" loops back to the "first event" causing an infinite loop. If you were to call the Big Bang the first event, you would see the end of the Universe as the "last event". In theory, the end of the Universe would be the cause of the beginning of the Universe. You would be left with an infinite loop of time with no real beginning or end. This theory eliminates the need for a first cause, but does not explain why there should be a loop in time.
Immanuel Kant carried forth this idea of Leibniz in his idea of transcendental relations, and as a result, this had profound effects on later philosophical attempts to sort these issues out. His most influential immediate successor, a strong critic whose ideas were yet strongly influenced by Kant, was Edmund Husserl, the developer of the school of philosophy called phenomenology. But the central concern of that school was to elucidate not physics but the grounding of information that physicists and others regard as empirical. In an indirect way, this train of investigation appears to have contributed much to the philosophy of science called logical positivism and particularly to the thought of members of the Vienna Circle, all of which have had much to say, at least indirectly, about ideas of determinism.
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