Determinism, Normality, 
 Universal constraints, Freedom



"Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective situation of the beings who compose it -- an intelligence sufficiently vast to submit these data to analysis-it would embrace in the same formula the movements of the biggest bodies of the universe and those of the lightest atom; for it, nothing would be uncertain and the future, as the past, would be present to its eyes. The human mind offers, in the perfection which it has been able to give to astronomy, a feeble idea of this intelligence. Its discoveries in mechanics and geometry, added to that of universal gravity, have enabled it to comprehend in the same analytical expressions the past and future states of the system of the world. Applying the same method to some other objects of its knowledge, it has succeeded in referring to general laws observed phenomena and in foreseeing those which given circumstances ought to produce.". (cf. P.S. Laplace - Philosophic Essay on Probability).

Certainly as Laplace remarked it,  we can sometimes foresee what is unchanging in our world of ceaseless creations and of invariable "comportments", what is determined or partially determined,
but then, what can we say of this determinism and  freedom degrees  that are associated to it ?

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Time is not any more, when some great minds were writing, fairly :
"Man cannot believe that he participates to whatever is beyond him. Henceforth, he knows that he is alone in indifferent  immensity of the universe where he emerged by hazard. " (cf. J. Monod - The Hazard and Necessity).

We participate in the universal dynamics, in particular because we are permanently reconstructed in a unchanging and coherent way, by exchanges of cosmic particles,
whereas life’s phenomenon is a potentiality of the universe "materialized" as soon as state of a planet is adequate.

Nowadays, for example, we can recognize in beings, in the " bricks of life " which are RNA and DNA, the outcomes (the materializations to become realities), of ceaseless universal creation activities of transcendent order, of materializations which attest sense’s respect and depend on inexorable and insuperable constraints.
So and paradoxically, the  life's phenomenon is "printed" by determinism and degrees of freedom, and thus by normalities and abnormalities (non-normalities).

Normality and Abnormality (non-normality)  

"But you can say,  nobody makes sacrifices to folly, nobody erects temples to her. I have already said to you, I am a little surprised (it is folly who talks) of so much ingratitude ....
Folly must have a great favour in sky, because every day, we pardon faults  to her that we would never forgive to a wise person. So, when with his wisdom  a man effects some silliness, he attributes it immediately to folly, and he asks for protection to this good goddess " (cf. Praise of the Folly -  Erasmus - 1469, 1536).

Concerning the normality and abnormality which also express, in a singular way, the relative character of the perceptions's interpretation, again let's listen folly :
"...From me, do not expect a definition or a division of rhetorician. Nothing would be more moved. If you define me, this will give to me of the borders, but my power has no border ....
I went out neither of the Chaos, nor of the Hells; I owe the day neither to Saturn, nor to Japet, nor to old scrapped divinities. It is Plutus who was my father, this Plutus who is father of the gods and men ; this Plutus, today as formerly, who changes what he wants and puts topsy-turvy all profane and sacred things ; this Plutus who leads to his whim the war, the peace, the empires, the councils, the tribunals, the assemblies of the peoples, the marriages, the treaties, the alliances, the laws, the arts, the seriousness, the pleasant, …, I lose breath ....
In brief, without me, you will see in life no pleasant or permanent relation. The monarch will become soon insufferable to his people, the man-servant to his master, the servant to his mistress, the follower to his private teacher, the friend to his friend, the husband to his wife, the host to his host, the companion to his companion, if they are not ceaselessly occupied to to cherish themselves mutually with sweet illusions of the error, flattery, kindness, or with some other pleasant folly ....

There are thus two sorts of folly.
The one, hideous girl of the hells, that the cruel Furies send all the times when they throw their horrible snakes in hearts of the mortals, in order to blow the war's furies, the insatiable gold’s thirst, the shameful and criminal love, the parricide, the incest, and all other crimes of this sort ...
But there is also the other one, very different from the first one, which is intended to happiness of all men. Her consists in a certain delicious illusion which seizes the soul and which enables to this soul from forgetting all afflictions, all anxieties, all sorrows of life ... Can we find men more crazy, and consequently happier than those who believe that by reciting every day the psalms's verses, they will  go to paradise ? Something of so crazy and of so pleasant, is not it the saints that one recognize protectors of various countries ? Every small part of the country has his saint, who is honored with particular ceremonies, and who also has his particular virtues. This one for example, cures the toothache, the other one relieves women in labour ; with this one things are returned, the other protects of a wreck, … (cf. Praise of the Folly).

It is true, as Blaise Pascal noticed it, "men are so naturally crazy as it would be be crazy, by another act of folly, of not to be crazy.".

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We qualify of "normality" all that is collectively recognized and accepted as good, well. Expressed more exactly, the normality is representative of all that is necessary and sufficient for good development of the individual, of his species and of the life's phenomenon, and from a philosophic point of view, even theological, the "normality" would be what enables a well-balanced and coherent dynamics of the physical and psychological behaviors. Can we be satisfied of this only definition ? No certainly.

Any dynamics presupposes, indeed, changes (breakings) of balance, to potential state, which are representative of freedom degrees, and that is why to the normality, is always associated a more or less important proportion of "abnormality",
of non-normality that individual who has a consciousness state, must, sometimes, annihilate according to his powers and responsibilities.

As non-normality, to potential state, there is for example, "incitement to the very big" which leads to extraordinary actions.
Thus, in all civilizations this incitement led men,
to the "immoderate actions"  as the megalithic constructions, the Seven wonders of the World, the cathedrals, the skyscrapers, the spatial projects, internet, ...,
to the unreasonable comportments as the myriads of "sacrifices", throughout our history, which resulted of bloodthirsty regimes, exaggerated ideologies, of freedom needs, …,
without forgetting the scientific headways which arose from "prodigious" intuitions.

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