Why does it make me uneasy that determinism is something that seems so desirable, we have to have it, in everything, and yet, if we had it, there would be nothing left to learn, nothing new to develop?
It does not make logical sense to me, to state that just because we can't see something, it doesn't exist. It makes far more sense that almost every assumption made will be broken, sooner or later.
Indeterminate things can and do exist alongside the determinate system we call "reality". They are only indeterminate because we don't know about them, but if we decide they don't exist, then how can we ever get to know about them?
To declare with confidence that there is a fixed quantity of particles in the universe seems extremely human egotistic to me. I guess folk who believe it might be more likely to invest in any project or book you might come up with, before they might, in something someone else came up with whilst admitting there are many unknowns.
So I see this thirst for, and tendency to express certainty where there is none to be something profit driven.
Tracing this out to the impacts on all things, we might start to see that the need to be seeking profit in everything we do is actually dumbing us down.