Determinism is the theory that the state of the universe at a time, along with the laws of causation, completely determine all later events. This means that every single event that we experience is caused by a combination of the laws of the universe and the past state of the universe; everything that we do, every action we take, is predetermined based on these factors. Determinism assumes that we do not have free will, since we are not personally responsible for our own actions. An individual can only have free will if they performed an action they were completely responsible for, but had the option of performing a different action under the same conditions. However, since all of our actions are predetermined, there is no way we could make our own decisions and cause our own actions, therefore illustrating that we do not have free will under the theory of determinism.…