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WE are, of course, discussing only the physical universe. Here strict determinism reigns, because even if there is no determinism in the behaviour of individual atoms, there are so many atoms in even the tiniest bit of matter that we may take an average. The laws of probability provide something which is, for our present purpose, equivalent to a strict causal determinism.
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JEANS, J. Contributions to a British Association Discussion on the Evolution of the Universe. Nature 128, 701–704 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128701a0
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