consciousness?

[genkaus]

Fair enough. Then you must be arguing that felt experiences are physical events. Or have I missed something?

You have missed something.

So by analogy, computer hardware causes software?

Yes.

I believe I freely chose and will be held accountable for my choices.

Then your god's plan should have no relevance to your life.

In contrast, a deterministic physical event has no control or culpability for its result. Any one that asserts that life is a purely physical event is basically saying they have no control over their life.

You just jump from one strawman to another, don't you? Saying that life is a purely physical event does not mean that there is no control over life.