Is our fate determined?

looked upon as an ideal condition , one that can in practise be ascertained during observed frames of time and this with relative approximation most of the time (for instance ion astronomy), but this is a condition that doesn’t actually exist. Professor Max Born 1 describes this fact with the following words: “The usual assertion that classical mechanism is deterministic is therefore incorrect. Just how this false ideal has been able to root itself so solidly in the heads of people, even in the most excellent minds of researchers, is not a physical problem, but a psychological one, one that could possibly be based on the development of the physical view of the world since Newton.” 2 As certain boundaries are set in regards to the determination of macro-physical processes, you’ll find that these boundaries apply to a much higher degree to micro-physical processes , to processes where only a few or only one atom is involved. An atom can react differently to the same influence case by case and this without us having the opportunity to accurately predict individual cases, ergo predict how it will behave the next time. We are talking here about non-causality or indeterminacy, but this doesn’t mean that no laws at all apply to such processes. They are only of a static nature and therefore make no explicit statement or prediction, they only give a final state with a certain probability. One can only accurately determine this after a great number of attempts have been undertaken under the same experimental conditions. Based on statistic laws of nature, one can on the other hand calculate the overall result of the reaction of a great number of equal atoms with sufficient accuracy. Therefore, for large bodies that consist of numerous individual atoms, the unambiguous laws of macro-physics arise from the statistic nuclear-physical laws that fall under the concept of causality. 1.2 Causality outside of physics One has always tried, and every human being tries to daily, to apply the principle of causality outside of physics. This doesn’t always succeed perfectly because the initial state that is supposed to determine the final state that lies in the future, is not always known with sufficient accuracy. According to most authors, the current state should however principally and inevitably predetermine the distant future in all its details. They therefore think that the world of the human spirit is subject to a strict causal connection everywhere in regards to feeling, wanting, thinking and acting, so that every experience, every thought and ever act of will is completely conditional to preceding events and circumstances. They see their conclusions justified through this, because physical processes also take place in the human body and the brain after all. But if these are determined, the mental processes must then also be determined according to them. They therefore infer that if causality applies, free will can no longer apply. This would mean that human and inter-human events are determined for all eternity. They therefore infer that responsibility and guilt no longer exists for individual human beings. One is therefore not able to influence and to control something though one’s own will and one’s own decisions. Everything that happens is inevitable. Parapsychology could even try to grasp the fixed future to the furthest degree possible through 1 Max Born , born in 1882, Professor of theoretical physics, Bad Pyrmont, Nobel prize for physics 1954. 2 M. Born, Comments to the statistic interpretation of quantum-mechanics in “Werner Heisenberg und die Physik unserer Zeit» Publisher F. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1961, P. 109.