Martin Seligman

I'm all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at any given moment is billiard balls whose past determines our future course. That doesn't take into account that we are forever generating internal representations of positive futures and choosing among them.

American Psychologist

Ted Dekker

Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.

Indonesian Author

Craig Venter

People think genes are an absolute cause of traits. But the notion that the genome is the blueprint for humanity is a very bad metaphor. If you think we're hard-wired and deterministic, there should indeed be a lot more genes.

American Scientist

Sean M. Carroll

The fact that the underlying laws of physics are deterministic and impersonal does not mean that at the human level we can't talk about ideas about reasons and goals and purposes and free will.

Richard Dawkins

It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any animal merely statistical - not deterministic.

English Scientist

Gregory Benford

The world is neither running down nor deterministic, and a strict division of order versus chaos is just wrong.

American Physicist

John von Neumann

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

American Mathematician

David Weinberger

The world is deterministic, but it's chaotic and emergent.

American Author

Understand that 'deterministic' implies zero reliance on luck or randomness - the outcome is predictable.

No Chance Involved

'Deterministic' often signifies that specific rules or laws govern the outcomes.

Rule-Based Results

It means that a process or system will produce the same result every time under the same conditions.

Consistent Outcomes

In computing, 'deterministic' emphasizes that an algorithm's output is exactly reproducible every time.

Exact Reproducibility

'Deterministic' in computing removes uncertainty, making debugging and analysis of programs easier.

Predictable Programming

Remember, a deterministic algorithm will not produce different results if given the same input data.

Same Input, Same Output

In physics, 'deterministic' means every event has a cause and follows physical laws without randomness.

Causal Relationships

The term is used to describe a universe that follows precise laws, allowing for predictions.

Laws of Nature

Contrast 'deterministic' physics with quantum mechanics, which includes probabilities and uncertainties.

Not Quantum

 So then if the trajectories of the balls are very close to each other, that means you either have a very good model, or there's a high level of predictability in that hurricane track, or both. These are called spaghetti plots. And it's essentially just deterministic guidance overlaid with a bunch of ensemble guidance.

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 as a historian or social critic. I mean, the industry focuses mainly on the positive sides, so it's the job of historians and philosophers and sociologists to highlight the more dangerous potential of all these new technologies. I don't think any of that is inevitable. Technology is never deterministic.

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 And finally, he revealed the truth of the matter. And it turns out it's a pseudo-random number generator using deterministic chaos. When you have a four-bit symbol, you then put it together with another one sideways. So even plus odd gives you odd. Odd plus even gives you odd.

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 But with this, that doesn't tell us what the genes are. It doesn't even tell us in any one child, is it one gene or potentially a combination of genes? And so in fact, in some individuals with autism, it is genetic! That is, that it is one single, powerful, deterministic gene

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 between how they respond to the world around them and the state of their biological systems. This is where evolutionary pressures like eating, mating and making sure we don't get eaten drive deterministic behavioral responses to information in the world.

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 computer scientists. When you're looking for life advice, computer scientists probably aren't the first people you think to talk to. Living life like a computer -- stereotypically deterministic, exhaustive and exact -- doesn't sound like a lot of fun.

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 moment as she is isolating himself further and further so we feel sometimes that the brain is deterministic the brain determines we were going to be but in fact the brain also becomes we are and at the same time that her behaviors

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 Biology itself, if you think of molecular biology, seems to have done very well in describing all the processes of life in terms of chemistry -- chemical reactions. And these are reductionist, deterministic chemical reactions,

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 moment by moment, as she is isolating herself further and further. So we feel sometimes that the brain is deterministic, the brain determines who we're going to be. But, in fact, the brain also becomes who we are,

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 You're, like, watching a movie of your life, with the DNA, with your remote control. You can remove an actor and add an actor. And so you have, in spite of the deterministic nature of genetics,