determinism

So much for the work of Pierre-Simon Laplace, the French mathematician, philosopher and king of determinism.

The idea that people grow up to embody their names is a phenomenon called "nominative determinism", Ms Kihm said.

"A strictly climate determinism perspective is limiting and distorts reality."

For fellow adherents of determinism — the belief that it’s impossible for a person in any situation to have acted differently than they did — Sapolsky’s scientific defense of the cause is welcome.

Where the first season was an examination of predestination and an identity reset for its namesake hero, these new episodes play with determinism – the theory that all our actions are inevitable.