Actually, looking back at some posts, I don't want to be misunderstood. Your answer of physics is quite understandable to me, except that I consider many other laws, both known and unknown: So I will call it THE LAW.
Determinism? I believe so. But I also believe in free will. I'll try to explain this when I'm back later. But for starters, we need to back away from reductionism and simply look at our mind, not at acid chains which we know nothing about. We certainly have free will (unless we wish to concede that a greater mind than ours created the necessary laws to prevent choice.) (REPEAT)
Thinking could not be rationalized, (or justified), without the idea of free will as a component in there somewhere. It would be an evolutionary idiocy or worse. Any Supreme LAW that would justify determinism to fulfill the source code, would not encumber itself with such an idiocy as the pretense of meaningful thought. What kind of an sadistic bastard would think that up? (is order, design and structure a natural result of mindlessness?)? Why can't people separate the phenomenon of consciousness from the laws of motion? What do the laws of motion have to do with the laws of thought? Why do we think that we don't think, and then try to justify our conclusions by the rationality of our thoughts? Have we no pride or respect?
Sure I believe in determinism. The universe is clearly far more intelligent than we little minds that keep uncovering, discovering, and copying--order, structure, and design. We operate subject to myriad laws...but at some epiphenomenal place...we have the abilty to recognize TRUTH. That is free will: To know which thoughts honor the LAW, and which thoughts don't. Understanding and logic are part of the LAW. Part of the LAW is the structure of logic and rationality. It is the LAW which allows us to think and to choose. It is still determinism, but it is also recognizing who you are. When one sits in the TRUTH (the TRUTH IN THOUGHT IS THE TRUTH IN FACT) then one is part of the TRUTH. Determinism: A is A. Free Will: a is a
(NO DIFFERENCE).
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