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All events are the result of prior events; there may be no such thing as “free will”; the flow of existence is far greater than anyone’s ability to change. This does not mean that our daily decisions are not our own, i.e directly controlled by external forces, but merely that they are shaped by the interplay between individuals and the environment, which are actually of the same essence – a shifting, mixing, interacting pool of action and reaction. “Free will” is nested within the larger deterministic systems which are mostly above the domain of human consciousness, and certainly above people’s average thought processes.

As for “fate”, it is possible that there is a “scheduled” outcome. People reject this because of their dogmatic belief in free will, which seems irreconcilable with the concept of fate. But “free will” does not preclude an inevitable outcome, because such an outcome would not necessarily be one single comprehensible event, but rather a state of reality which could have any number of sensory manifestations.

That is to say, what appear to us in our limited perception as different outcomes, may in fact be different manifestations of the same unconscionable outcome. As a simple analogy, the number ten can be formed by an infinite number of computations, such as 1+9, 2+8, 3+7, 4+6, 5+5, -9933 + 9943, etc. The “answer”, or the “outcome” is still 10. The objective “telos” may be beyond our ability to grasp, and so we may only perceive the constituent phenomena, which are infinitely variable.