“You have to wait until parts four and five. First he establishes that we live in a deterministic world loaded with obstacles to our well-being. Whatever occurs is a result of the unchanging laws of nature, and we are part of nature, subject to these deterministic laws. Furthermore, nature is infinitely complex. As he puts it, nature has an infinite number of modes or attributes, and we humans can only apprehend two of them, thought and material essence.”
