That's a neat thought, but based on the convo with Alison Pill's character I am thinking he is pissed about knowing that his daughter was always meant to die and there was never any choice in the matter (as in doing something different or it having a meaning in his sense of meaning). The thing they said about still feeling the emotions and pain despite knowing that it was always going to happen. Knowing this is what's messing everyone up.

I think the sentiment everyone feels first is "Nothing I do makes a difference", but it does as everyone is an integral part that affect their surroundings. Someone dying makes a difference too. The mind screwy part is that finding this out and having these thoughts are also part of the rails.

In essence nothing has really changed other than the perception. It's easy to think "I am predictable, my thoughts are not my own", but they are still your own, it's just no surprise that you are having them as they are a result of everything you've seen, done, heard, learned throughout your life. People are predictable irl, that's why we can be manipulated and manipulate, why mentalists can sometimes make our jaws drop, why we can feel empathy and understand each other too.

This is why the neural nets used by google and amazon are getting better and better. Someone trained a net to be able to tell if you are gay or not within 90% accuracy from just a profile picture. That is scary and cool. Here is a link to one of the articles covering the paper https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/ai-gay-faces-facial-recognition-study-claims-artificial-intelligence-a7936851.html

Given enough training and time, neural nets could probably predict a lot more with a very high accuracy rate. I would not call it deterministic exactly, but it's logical that a lot of what happens can be expected based on statistical data. The advantage a computer has over us is it can ingest the experience equivalent to thousands of lifetimes in a very short time span. It can basically master everything whilst we can not.

This series is awesome though :) Definitely one for discussions.