A Working Draft Design Argument

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So are you trying to suggest that consciousness, conscious thoughts are not subject to determinism? Free of the shackles of such constraints?

That the reason why I contemplate x, isn’t caused by preceding factors?

Not necessarily, no.

You could accept hard determinism and still argue for the counterargument I stated in my previous post. The existence of consciousness may be contingent on prior factors that aren't conscious or aren't ultimately contingent on the conscious.

But the prior factors determined what I was to think, what thought transpires in my brain.

The prior factors produced the thought that arose in my consciousness. Consciousness is more like an awareness rather than an originator or assigner of things. A passenger observing the thoughts that form, then the cause of the thoughts themselves .