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I need something cleared up about determinism

So determinism states that every action you do is predetermined from the Big Bang. It says your decisions are a result of your genes, brain chemistry and environment, we are sort of a slave to these things...but aren't i my genes, brain and environment? How can we be a slave to ourselves...i don't really take a stance on this whole issue but this is one thing I don't understand about determinism: how can my body be making the choices if I am the body? If I am both the puppet and the puppeteer, what's the affect?
gpt
Determinism doesn't say that we're a slave or puppet, it merely says there are deterministic causal relations between prior and subsequent events, including the events involved in human behaviors.  We only infer from determinism that we lack free will if we are also *incompatibilists*, that is, if we also think that determinism is incompatible with freedom.

But lots of people think incompatibilism is a confused and untenable position, and one kind of reasoning such people might give for thinking this is the kind of reasoning you refer to here: incompatibilism often seems to rely upon a curious sort of dualism about human nature, when it claims that we are slaves to our body, which seems only to make sense if we're something other than our body.  If that's how the incompatibilist reasons, then it's natural to conclude that a rejection of this kind of dualism also counts as a rejection of incompatibilism, and to find this a good reason for rejecting incompatibilism, i.e. for being a compatibilist.

The compatibilist still says determinism is true, they just deny that this makes us slaves or puppets.