If matter itself is not determined, the future is not written in advance.

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The argument assumes every effect is wholly fixed by its causes. Yet quantum physics describes fundamental events that are merely probable, not determined.
If holds at the finest level, "everything has a cause" no longer means "everything is settled in advance": one and the same cause may leave several outcomes open.
survives, nothing springs from nothing; but its determinist conclusion no longer follows: the web of causes leaves play.

Therefore So causal closure does not prove strict : the future may not be wholly fixed.

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