The ending is a false dichotomy. It’s likely the universe is deterministic, but that does not mean everything is predetermined: it just means the universe is m

The ending is a false dichotomy. It’s likely the universe is deterministic, but that does not mean everything is predetermined: it just means the universe is mechanistically governed by certain rules. Those rules create a fractal spectrum of causal events not unlike those seen in the Game of Life. From the interplay of those causalities emerges an ordered bubble of discrete, relatively-localized energy-matter we perceive as our physical universe—and possibly countless others like it.