ing is quite chaotic. Subatomic particles seem to have complete freedom to go as they 'will'. At higher levels, order begins to appear, and the universe starts to look more deterministic. Perhaps determinism and free will are concepts peculiar to human beings and have no absolute meaning in the overall scheme of things. However, determinism versus free will is a philosophical problem, and the human mind loves to play with such dilemmas. Here we are confronted with the problem of determinism and free will as a real issue. Perhaps this is merely another example of linguistic confusion.
Proceeding ahead regardless, there are two basic ways in which we may find how nonmaterial factors can be generated in a universe that at one time presumably did not contain them. One is by appealing to chance, and supposing that new developments are spontaneous, accumulating to enrich the universe. The other alternative is to retain determinism, but to interpret it nonmechanistically. Mechanism suggests that the laws of the cosmos are fixed and completed, and that, therefore, all new phenomena can really be placed into a limited set of categories, or explained by a limited number of principles. Its dogmatism exists in the assumption that it is possible to frame concepts of prediction applicable to all future qualities and happenings in the universe down to the last element.
Determinism renders the onlooker quite imp
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