I don't see these points as following from determinism. >everything could be predicted Not at all. Think about what you need to predict someone's behavior. Yo

I don't see these points as following from determinism. >everything could be predicted Not at all. Think about what you need to predict someone's behavior. You need to emulate the entire universe (at least within the cone of causal influence) and then run it long enough for the thing you're trying to predict to occur. Essentially you're creating a duplicate universe and just seeing what happens. You're not predicting, you're observing. In this tangent universe, the person is thinking and deciding just the same. So ultimately the decision is still the necessary precursor to the event. >our thoughts are not real Our thoughts are real, they're just highly complex interactions of physical atoms. Our thoughts aren't non-physical, or acausal, or anything supernatural. But I don't see these properties being necessary for our thoughts to be real and hold value to us. As I said before, our thoughts necessarily precede our decisions which necessarily precede our actions. What else do you want from your thoughts?