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If laws of physics or the state of the universe at some past point in time is not enough to completely determine the future, that does not mean that there is nothing that can determine the future or that the only thing that can determine the future is randomness. It simply states that the thing that can determine the future will not be laws of physics.
It's completely consistent, as far as I am aware of, with the ability of an agent like you and me to determine some part of the future.
>What are you? You are your thoughts, feelings, memories, desires, personality traits, mental abilities etc.All of these belong to me but I see no reason to believe that this completely describes who I am.
Indeed, if someone managed to record all my thoughts, feelings, desires, personality traits, and mental abilities (after spending enormous amounts of time thinking how to encode these things) the record will not contain me. All it would have are precisely those things: my feelings, my thoughts etc. I am more than these things, although they are obviously part of who I am.
>What is indeterminism? That something happening isn't determined by anything, just happens by brute fact.Well that's not how I view indeterminism. Indeed, nothing about physics or philosophy seems to indicate that there are things not determined by anything.
It simply means that laws of physics are not enough to give us a complete description of reality. That doesn't mean that there is no description of reality or that nothing can account for the description of reality.
>There could be some of that in our universe, but it could NOT in anyway give you the power to choose.I do not base my belief in my free will from laws of physics. All that current laws of physics seem to give to me is descriptions of very specific situations, and seem to indicate that a mathematical description of a future physical state only knowing the state at one point in time is not possible.
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