My take on regret

[Mr.Obvious]

If I'm honest, I would say my point of view would lead me to suspect you are not thinking about regrets and are not facing them.

But what is there to regret?

Sure I've done bad things and I've missed out on illusory opportunities because the universe is deterministic.... but in both cases due to that determinism: what is there to regret when ultimately I cannot take credit for any of my own actions?

While I don't believe in what I often coin 'true free will', I don't think you can't not ultimately take credit for your own actions.
Because not taking credit for my own actions would imply to me that my true self is somehow something trapped within a deterministic universe. Some soul trapped within and denied its own agency. And I don't think we are something that special. My being, I think, is a part of that deterministic universe. And as such it functions at the same level of 'determinism' and 'free will'. If we coin the 'free will' we have as an 'illusion of free will', a term I find most appropriate, then our selves are also 'illusions of selves'. And if everything about us is brought down to the level of illusion, everything we experience and choose and do and don't do and ... Then what function has this higher level we don't experience? If we feel like we make choices, even when we know that "technically we probably don't, if you want to get right down to it over a long night of conversations in the arm chairs by the hearth with a glass of brandy or two", we will still feel the pride and shame. We will feel the regret and contentment. And even if these feelings are just illusions experienced by an illusion of a self, these illusory experiences are still the experiences us illusions deal with in our illusory lives.

Man, this is really testing my knowledge of the english language. What a soup.