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Examples Of Determinism In Inside Out

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Inside Out
In the movie Inside Out it’s all about determinism. The word determinism means that every event including human action, is governed by some natural laws. Meanwhile libertarianism is the opposite. Libertarianism is basically free will, and free will means the ability to choose, think, and act voluntarily. Inside out is all determinism because Riley is being controlled. Riley does not have free will because she is being controlled.
The movie Inside Out is showing that Riley is being controlled by her own emotions. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions, which are joy, fear, anger, disgust, and sadness. These five emotions are controlling Riley through her everyday life. Her emotions live in Headquarters, which is the control center inside Riley’s mind. In our class lecture we watched the clip from Inside Out and our class basically agreed that Riley was being controlled by her emotions. We also learned the meaning of …show more content…

It also says that there are differences among scientists as to kinds of determinism. The different kinds of determinism are indeterminism, predestination, and fatalism. The most tendency today is to reject mechanical determinism. Determinism is being controlled by natural laws. Riley is being controlled by her five emotions, but in the clip we watched two emotions, which are joy and sadness leave the headquarters because they get sucked up into a tube and takes them to Riley’s long-term memory. So, Riley is left with three emotions, which are anger, disgust, and fear and they have to help Riley out throughout a few days by themselves. Those three emotions are working for the first time without Joy because Joy is the one who leads them to do what they have to do in order for Riley to get through her day. So, anger, disgust, and fear have to help Riley out without the help of

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