The Stochastic Man

"We are born by accident into a purely random universe. Our lives are determined by entirely fortuitous combinations of genes. Whatever happens, happens by chance. The concepts of cause and effect are fallacies. There are only seeming causes leading to apparent effects. Since nothing truly follows from anything else, we swim each day through seas of chaos, and nothing is predictable, not even the events of the very next instant.
Do you believe that?"

~Robert Silverberg