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Mechanistic Determinism
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Conflict with Quantum Mechanics
The introduction of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle demonstrated that precise knowledge of conjugate variables (like position and momentum) is fundamentally impossible, contradicting Laplace's initial requirement for complete knowledge of initial conditions. Proponents of Quantum Mechanistic Determinism (QMD) attempt to resolve this by arguing that quantum randomness is merely "epistemic," meaning it reflects our lack of knowledge, rather than being ontologically real. However, this necessitates the assu…