Determinism, Free Will, and Fate with Arthur M. Young (1905-1995)

This video is a special release from the original Thinking Allowed series that ran on public television from 1986 until 2002. It was recorded in about 1989.

Free will and purpose are not inconsistent with a universe subject to law. In fact, says Arthur Young, your free will would be ineffective without a determinate world to act upon. Young, inventor of the Bell helicopter and author of The Reflexive Universe, also discusses the difference between determinism the belief that everything acts according to law, and predestination or fate.

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