Free will

=====Predeterminism=====
{{Main|Predeterminism}}
{{See also|Predestination}}

[[Predeterminism]] is the idea that all events are determined in advance.<ref name="McKewan">{{cite encyclopedia |last=McKewan |first=Jaclyn |editor=H. James Birx"|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture |title=Predeterminism |year=2009 |publisher=SAGE Publications|doi=10.4135/9781412963961.n191 |pages=1035–36|chapter=Evolution, Chemical |isbn=978-1-4129-4164-8 }}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionaries |title=Predeterminism |url=http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/predeterminism |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120904051839/http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/predeterminism |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 4, 2012 |access-date=20 December 2012 |date=2010 }}. See also {{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=Collins English Dictionary |title=Predeterminism |url=http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/predeterminism |access-date=20 December 2012 |publisher=Collins}}</ref> Predeterminism is the [[philosophy]] that all events of [[history]], past, present and future, have been decided or are known (by [[God]], [[fate]], or some other force), including human actions. Predeterminism is frequently taken to mean that human actions cannot interfere with (or have no bearing on) the outcomes of a pre-determined course of events, and that one's destiny was established externally (for example, exclusively by a creator deity). The concept of predeterminism is often argued by invoking [[causal determinism]], implying that there is an unbroken [[chain of prior occurrences]] stretching back to the origin of the universe. In the case of predeterminism, this chain of events has been pre-established, and human actions cannot interfere with the outcomes of this pre-established chain. Predeterminism can be used to mean such pre-established causal determinism, in which case it is categorised as a specific type of [[determinism]].<ref name="McKewan" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://philosophy.lander.edu/ethics/notes-determinism.html |title=Some Varieties of Free Will and Determinism |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=10 September 2009 <!-- date found by checking page's source code where format of date given as m.d.y -->|work=Philosophy 302: Ethics |publisher=philosophy.lander.edu |access-date=19 December 2012| quote=Predeterminism: the philosophical and theological view that combines God with determinism. On this doctrine events throughout eternity have been foreordained by some supernatural power in a causal sequence.}}</ref> It can also be used interchangeably with causal determinism&nbsp;– in the context of its capacity to determine future events.<ref name="McKewan" /><ref>See for example {{cite journal |author=Hooft, G. |title=How does god play dice? (Pre-)determinism at the Planck scale |quote=Predeterminism is here defined by the assumption that the experimenter's 'free will' in deciding what to measure (such as his choice to measure the x- or the y-component of an electron's spin), is in fact limited by deterministic laws, hence not free at all |arxiv=hep-th/0104219 |year=2001|bibcode=2001hep.th....4219T}}, and {{cite journal |author=Sukumar, CV |title=A new paradigm for science and architecture |quote=Quantum Theory provided a beautiful description of the behaviour of isolated atoms and nuclei and small aggregates of elementary particles. Modern science recognized that predisposition rather than predeterminism is what is widely prevalent in nature. |journal=City |volume=1 |issue=1–2 |pages=181–83 |year=1996|doi=10.1080/13604819608900044|bibcode=1996City....1..181S }}</ref> Despite this, predeterminism is often considered as independent of causal determinism.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Borst, C. |title=Leibniz and the compatibilist account of free will |quote=Leibniz presents a clear case of a philosopher who does not think that predeterminism requires universal causal determinism |journal=Studia Leibnitiana |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=49–58 |year=1992 |jstor=40694201}}</ref><ref name=Society1971>{{cite book|author=Far Western Philosophy of Education Society|title=Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Far Western Philosophy of Education Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=spkpAQAAMAAJ|access-date=20 December 2012|year=1971|publisher=Far Western Philosophy of Education Society.|page=12|quote="Determinism" is, in essence, the position holding that all behavior is caused by prior behavior. "Predeterminism" is the position holding that all behavior is caused by conditions predating behavior altogether (such impersonal boundaries as "the human conditions", instincts, the will of God, inherent knowledge, fate, and such).}}</ref> The term predeterminism is also frequently used in the context of biology and heredity, in which case it represents a form of [[biological determinism]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=Merriam-Webster Dictionary |title=Predeterminism |url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/predeterminism |access-date=20 December 2012 |publisher=Merriam-Webster, Incorporated}} See for example {{cite journal |author=Ormond, A.T. |title=Freedom and psycho-genesis |quote=The problem of predeterminism is one that involves the factors of heredity and environment, and the point to be debated here is the relation of the present self that chooses to these predetermining agencies |journal=Psychological Review |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=217–29 |year=1894 |doi=10.1037/h0065249|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1429090 }}, and {{cite journal |author=Garris, M.D. |title=A Platform for Evolving Genetic Automata for Text Segmentation (GNATS) |quote=However, predeterminism is not completely avoided. If the codes within the genotype are not designed properly, then the organisms being evolved will be fundamentally handicapped. |journal=Science of Artificial Neural Networks |volume=1710 |pages=714–24 |year=1992|doi=10.1117/12.140132|display-authors=etal|bibcode=1992SPIE.1710..714G |s2cid=62639035 }}</ref>

The term predeterminism suggests not just a determining of all events, but the prior and deliberately conscious determining of all events (therefore done, presumably, by a conscious being). While determinism usually refers to a naturalistically explainable causality of events, predeterminism seems by definition to suggest a person or a "someone" who is controlling or planning the causality of events before they occur and who then perhaps resides beyond the natural, causal universe. [[Predestination]] asserts that a supremely powerful being has indeed fixed all events and outcomes in the universe in advance, and is a famous doctrine of the [[Calvinists]] in [[Christian theology]]. Predestination is often considered a form of hard [[theological determinism]].

Predeterminism has therefore been compared to [[fatalism]].<ref>{{cite journal |author=Sherman, H. |title=Marx and determinism |quote=Many religions of the world have considered that the path of history is predetermined by God or Fate. On this basis, many believe that what will happen will happen, and they accept their destiny with fatalism. |journal=Journal of Economic Issues |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=61–71 |year=1981 |jstor=4224996|doi=10.1080/00213624.1981.11503814 }}</ref> Fatalism is the idea that everything is fated to happen, so that humans have no control over their future.