Is Moral Responsibility Compatible With Determinism?

[Sal]

The problem with saying that all motivated selective focus is unconscious is that it isn't.  Much of it is decidedly due to conscious efforts practicing behaviors for the future

If determinism is true then all of that conscious activity is ultimately determined by unconscious activity.

Well, yeah.

The problem I have with Free Will is that, when it gets down to it, is that you at some point have to deny physical causes in the mind. Why is that? Isn't the mind made of matter? And doesn't that matter follow the same physical laws that are present in other configurations of non-brains? Brains, and ultimately minds, aren't made from some exotic matter that isn't subject to natural cause and effect.

To say that we have Free Will, to me, is the same as saying we're not bound by nature.

Emergent properties do not escape those physical realities.