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| '''Physical determinism''' is a position in ] that holds that a complete description of the ''physical'' state of the world at any given time and a complete statement of the ''physical'' laws of nature together entail every truth as to what ''physical'' events happen after that time.<ref name=Ginet/> | |||
| This statement leaves open just what "physical" might mean, or a "complete" description. This vagueness is reflected in its usage. So, for example, one could take ''physical determinism'' as {{quote|"a concept only relevant to the mathematical models of physics and other physical sciences, although its relevance to the world of everyday choice and action is questionable...if thoughts, feelings, and desires are not physical events, it is unlikely that physical theories are appropriate models for thinking about such nonphysical events.<ref name=Bishop/>|Robert C. Bishop |Chaos, indeterminism, and free will, p. 84}} | |||
| These observations are related to the question of the ''causal completeness'' of science, the idea that every event falls within the domain of scientific explanation. If causal completeness does not apply to the universe, then the door is open to events that are not subject to physical determinism.<ref name=Atmanspacher/> A common view of mental events is that they are an ] only correlated with neurological activity, and without causal impact. However, a failure of physical determinism would allow room for their causal significance. | |||
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| {{cite book |author=Robert C Bishop, Harald Atmanspacher |chapter=Chapter 5: The causal closure of physics and free will |page=101 |title=The Oxford Handbook of Free Will: Second Edition |editor=Robert Kane, ed |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=4YUJhIiyMFoC&pg=PA101 |isbn=0195399692 |year=2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press |edition=2nd}} | |||
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| <ref name=Bishop> | |||
| {{cite book |author=Robert C Bishop |chapter=Chapter 4: Chaos, indeterminism, and free will |page=84 |title=The Oxford Handbook of Free Will: Second Edition |editor=Robert Kane, ed |isbn=0195399692 |year=2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press |edition=2nd |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=4YUJhIiyMFoC&pg=PA84}} | |||
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| <ref name=Ginet> | |||
| This definition is from {{cite book |title=On Action |author=Carl Ginet |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=mRns0NYdns0C&pg=PA92 |page=92 |isbn=052138818X |year=1990 |publisher=Cambridge University Press}} | |||
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