One can argue that because we are even discussing fate at this very moment, fate exists. With similarity to time, fate is a manmade concept or explanation for how things eventually occur, and as such, it is real, but it is not necessarily accurate. Again, with similarity to time, fate is also relative.
One can also argue, from a scientific perspective, that an individual is shaped by their experiences, and, since most (if not all) experiences are beyond their control, people are not in control of who they become entirely. The result is that we are predisposed to make decisions in a certain manner. From huge decisions such as who to marry, to little decisions like what speed to walk at. Fate would be the pathway that is created when one looks at the sum of all the experiences, chronologically, that someone has, and the resulting decisions that they make.
Let me put it this way. If you have two identical individuals genetically, and you submit them to exactly the same experiences and situations throughout each of their lives. Would you expect them to make the same decisions? Or would you expect them to differ and diverge from one another? This is assuming that all influences upon each of them are the same. From the positions of the moon and sun throughout their lives, to the number of hairs on their head.
Now, that being said, there's no way of knowing where that end will be, but that end DOES exist for us all.
But how feasible is fate? If fate exists, then what's the point of free will? Are we all just trains on tracks that go from one point to another? Or is fate only the end game, and the way in which we arrive at our destination is of our own volition?
I think that fate predetermined in the sense that I explained above, but it is not the removal of free will. Our free will is what shapes our fate, but our fate exists nonetheless.
Just for clarification, I'm discussing fate in the sense that it is one's "destiny" (... or "density" as George McFly called it).
One can also argue, from a scientific perspective, that an individual is shaped by their experiences, and, since most (if not all) experiences are beyond their control, people are not in control of who they become entirely. The result is that we are predisposed to make decisions in a certain manner. From huge decisions such as who to marry, to little decisions like what speed to walk at. Fate would be the pathway that is created when one looks at the sum of all the experiences, chronologically, that someone has, and the resulting decisions that they make.
Let me put it this way. If you have two identical individuals genetically, and you submit them to exactly the same experiences and situations throughout each of their lives. Would you expect them to make the same decisions? Or would you expect them to differ and diverge from one another? This is assuming that all influences upon each of them are the same. From the positions of the moon and sun throughout their lives, to the number of hairs on their head.
Now, that being said, there's no way of knowing where that end will be, but that end DOES exist for us all.
But how feasible is fate? If fate exists, then what's the point of free will? Are we all just trains on tracks that go from one point to another? Or is fate only the end game, and the way in which we arrive at our destination is of our own volition?
I think that fate predetermined in the sense that I explained above, but it is not the removal of free will. Our free will is what shapes our fate, but our fate exists nonetheless.
Just for clarification, I'm discussing fate in the sense that it is one's "destiny" (... or "density" as George McFly called it).
