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en-wikipedia-org-4035		Hard determinism - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2513	291	56	In ancient Greece, Socrates initiated the rationalistic teaching that any agent is obliged to pursue the chief good conceived by his or her mind.[4] Strato of Lampsacus speculated that an unconscious divine power acts in the world and causes the origin, growth, and breakdown of things.[5] Diodorus Cronus asserted the identity of the possible and the necessary and inferred that future events are as determined as the past ones.[6] Chrysippus of Soli refuted the "idle argument" invented to discredit determinism as if human efforts were futile in a preordained world; he explained that fated events occur with the engagement of conscious agents.[7] Recently, Daniel Wegner stressed the limitations of free will on grounds of experimental evidence for unconscious choice and action.[14] To prove determinism, the following putative experiment was proposed: all principal differences between the features of an artificial zygote and that developing naturally can be avoided.[15] Psychological effects of belief in hard determinism[edit]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4035.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4035.txt