The totality of these cascading events can theoretically show exactly how the system will exist at any moment in time.
Small deterministic systems are easy to visualize, but are necessarily linked to the rest of reality by an initial cause and/or final effect.
And the system itself must be considered in isolation: if external forces such as hurricanes, earthquakes, or the hands of nearby people were taken into consideration, the final domino toppling might not be a predetermined outcome.
Conversely, when deterministic computers are said to exhibit artificial intelligence, how are their minds similar to ours?
The entire universe may be considered as such a system, which creates its own philosophical questions (see Determinism).