Reality Isn't Prewritten

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Once, I was fascinated by the notion of determinism: everything that happens in the world—a cosmic explosion or a person's action—is fixed by preceding causes.

But as I learned more about quantum mechanics, I stumbled into a life-determining debate with my past self.

In the microscopic world, particle movement is probabilistic, existing as a cloud of probabilities, a wave of "maybes" until they finally "choose" a state. That's how it works in reality on the smallest scales—everything is technically possible, but some things are simply way more likely than others.

Einstein held a deterministic view, famously asking Bohr, "Do you really believe the moon is not there when you are not looking at it?" Einstein rejected the notion of probabilities defining reality, but Bohr’s ideas offered a new lens. Bohr saw the world as inherently probabilistic, where reality isn’t fixed until observed.

In the classical, deterministic view, everything is like a set of falling dominoes—each event caused by and causing the next in a predictable way. But in the quantum world, particles are like dice rolling with every interaction, their paths forming waves of probability rather than fixed outcomes.

The inherent randomness in quantum mechanics led me to question my original belief. Each interaction nudges things in different directions, creating endless possibilities rather than a single, inevitable path.

To me, it states that reality is not prewritten in any sense. Just as particles, my life is filled with potential paths shaped by decisions and chance rather than a predetermined script. 

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