How chance rules our lives!

I was wondering about Sheldon’s dialogue in the first episode of the first season of “The Big Bang Theory”, where he speaks about “The mass cultural delusion, that sun’s apparent position to earth during the time of birth somehow affects our personality”. Well, maybe it does. I ‘am not saying it because I have some medieval faith, but I think there might be a scientific explanation. To understand this clearly, you need to realize something. I wish you don’t realize it completely, because the after affects of that realization aren’t good.Once you realize it, life seems worthless, everything you do seems pointless. I might not be right. I wish I ‘am not right. This might seem obvious at first but as you understand its deeper implications, that is when trouble starts. The idea is simple: “its all chemical reactions”. Everything we do, everything we say and everything you can imagine is a chemical reaction at the basic level. So you might ask if its all chemical reactions, then life must be one-dimensional, that is only one definite course of events is going to  occur in your life. And what course of events occurs must depend on the initial chemical configuration. This would be an excellent explanation for the theory of destiny. But I ‘am afraid this might not be true. Heisenberg’s Uncertainty principle had explicitly made it clear that down at the level of the atoms, probability rules. There is only a certain possibility of an event, down at that level. And most of the reactions, including neurological reactions, occur at that level. So it’s all a game of chance. There is only a certain possibility that something will happen in your life. Worst part, it’s not your choice. Your social and cultural upbringing does affect the outcome but only in a small way. They bias some of the possibilities but never make them certain. This is where Baye’s law of probability comes into place. The probabilities are weighed but still they are only probable, not certain. Even if your upbringing creates a 99% chance of a certain outcome, for that one time when you need to make the decision, the electrical signal in your brain might take the one in hundredth chance and go the other way and this might change the entire course of your life. Well the point is, even if you might not notice it, “chance” affects our life in the subtlest way. Call it luck or whatever you want, the truth is that our life is a game of chance and we can only hope for a favorable outcome. Einstein didn’t like to believe that the world is ruled by “chance”. He famously said, “God doesn’t play dice”. I wish he was true, I wish there is a definite course for us. I don’t bother if it’s decided beforehand or is it in our hands to shape it, at least we won’t be at the mercy of “chance”.