>>10797131>I would even go so far as to say that most people would intuitively believe that determinism precludes what they see as free will.^This. Fuck fence-sitting faggots who try to make everything a retarded nonsensical compromise.
At a very fundamental level nobody is really making their brain activity do what it does. Language is a great example of this. You don't genuinely sit there cobbling together atomic letter symbols and base sounds to form words to form phrases to form sentences to form a written message or spoken conversation. It's a convenient and ridiculously untrue cartoon version of reality where "you" are sitting there inside your brain pulling all the strings on this. If a sudden stroke or brain injury happens you could easily lose the capacity to do all these fantastical language tricks.
Much the same with bodily movement. You tend to assume "you" are orchestrating what your body does, but you can look up videos of people with different brain injury / disease varieties who no longer have the benefit of proper body control. Balance we take for granted in a big way. These people who lose their default balance functionality have to make due with a much worse workaround based on their other senses. And you look like a crazy alcoholic or PCP addict when walking in that way eyeballing where your body is and relying on the responses to that alternative pathway of information to shamble along.
Remarkable thing is there's nothing wrong with the body parts moving around in those cases. It's purely an impact to the brain. Kind of scary the more you think of all the different things we take for granted that could get shut down.
But yeah, back to determinism, our brains never *don't* do exactly what physics would predict if someone took the time to actually go down to that myopic degree of obsessive detail and plotted out every little chemical reaction and electrical impulse.
