Free will
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Free will is generally understood as the capacity or ability of people to choose between different possible courses of action, exercise control over their actions in a way that is necessary for moral
A dirt jumper performing a trick, according to some interpretations, is the result of free will.
A domino's movement is determined completely by laws of physics.
René Descartes
Thomas Hobbes was a classical compatibilist.
Determinism
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Determinism is the metaphysical view that all events within the universe can occur only in one possible way. Deterministic theories throughout the history of philosophy have developed from diverse and
Free will
…are often emphasized differently depending on philosophical tradition, with debates focusing on whether and how such freedom can coexist with physical determinism, divine foreknowledge, and other constraints. Free will is closely linked to the concepts of moral responsibility and moral desert, praise, culpability…
Many philosophical theories of determinism frame themselves with the idea that reality follows a sort of predetermined path.
Although it is not possible to predict the arrival position or time for any particle, probabilities of arrival predict the final pattern of events.
Seated Buddha