system
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human
I hold a deterministic view on life CMV

After thinking about it over and over again, I'm convinced that life is deterministic.  My chemical composure along with every bit of influence that has ever acted upon me predetermine everything I do.  Any decision I make is the result of the infinite variables acting upon me at any one instance and the infinite amount of influence in every instance in the past.

I do not want to hold this view, but I haven't heard arguments for free will that do not involve religion and are compelling enough to change my view.
gpt
I too believe in some ways the idea that the universe follows deterministic rules, and theoretically, if you were able to "freeze" the state of the universe in some universe-simulation machine, you could go forwards and backwards and know the past and future.

I think the main criticism of this idea is that it's pretty pointless. It claims something about the universe at an atomic level, but free will should be about the brain's reasoning and logic, regardless of whether or not the brain operates deterministically.

In other words, universal physical determinism and mankind's free will are "talking past each other" so to speak. Claiming that the universe is deterministic doesn't excuse the poor choices of others and doesn't prevent you from choosing what to wear in the morning. Even if your choice of t-shirt is a deterministic outcome of the previous states of the universe, who cares? Nobody benefits from knowing the answer to this.

(true quantum randomness also is irrelevant to "free will" as people know it)