Thanks for the summary, this makes it easier to address his other points. You already see the issue with constraints -- which is why our reality is a bottom-up

Thanks for the summary, this makes it easier to address his other points. You already see the issue with constraints -- which is why our reality is a bottom-up one, but with the appearance of top-down rules. The point that if determinism is true all texts are encoded, also applies to any other organized information, e.g. human DNA. If books can only be thought of as the product of human free will, and not just natural law, then equally, DNA must be credited to something's free will. But what? Does evolution have free will? No, I think they're both the outcomes of natural processes. We can still build legal systems of copyright on top of that though, and claim credit for those works. (As for where the data comes from if not the Schrodinger equation -- that problem also has a simple solution, which is that we're on the leaf of a widely branching tree, and the data is seeded by the index of our branching history).