> <i>Perhaps the universe is not a computer, perhaps its origin and its conclusion are fixed, and it speeds along a trajectory between the two that, when all possible histories are considered, is the only one it could have...</i><p>Perhaps; note that Einstein expended a great deal of effort attempting to patch up this world view in the face of QM, but kept running up against the experimental results that <i>alea iacta est</i>.<p>(Compare: Aquinas, Leibniz, Spinoza, <a href="https://xkcd.com/2904/" rel="nofollow">https://xkcd.com/2904/</a> )