Quote Originally Posted by mbiz View Post
Anyone care to paraphrase this for me?
I think this could be called environmental determinism. Determinism is not easy to accept, and likely impossible for humans to understand or demonstrate. But I find that every ounce of reality we have suggests environmental determinism. It doesn't feel that way on the individual level, but that may just be like we only feel like we live in four dimensional spacetime when reality is likely much deeper than that.

So when we broaden scope enough, we'll see that everything that happens is based on environment and laws, not individuals or ideals or what have you. Similar to how when you flip a coin over and over you get all sorts of different results, but when you broaden scope enough you see that the coin flipping plays by a set a rules that cannot be ignored and is rather deterministic