Editing Determinism (section)

=== Many-worlds ===
The [[many-worlds interpretation]] accepts the linear causal sets of sequential events with adequate consistency yet also suggests constant forking of causal chains that can in principle be globally deterministic.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Kent |first=Adrian |date=2010 |title=One World Versus Many: The Inadequacy of Everettian Accounts of Evolution, Probability, and Scientific Confirmation |journal=Many Worlds |pages=307–354 |arxiv=0905.0624 |doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199560561.003.0012 |isbn=978-0-19-956056-1}}</ref> Meaning the causal set of events leading to the present are all valid yet appear as a singular linear time stream within a much broader unseen conic probability field of other outcomes that "split off" from the locally observed timeline. Under this model causal sets are still "consistent" yet not exclusive to singular iterated outcomes.

The interpretation sidesteps the exclusive retrospective causal chain problem of "could not have done otherwise" by suggesting "the other outcome does exist" in a set of parallel states of the universe that (in one version) split off in any interacting event. This interpretation is sometimes described with the example of agent-based choices.<ref>[[Lev Vaidman|Vaidman, Lev]], [https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2021/entries/qm-manyworlds "Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics"], in ''The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' (Fall 2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), accessed on 2 March 2025</ref>