Determinism Is Self Defeating

[bennyboy]

There is "free will" but everything is "determined". Does anyone catch my drift? The state of now determines what happens in t+1 (the future). There are no random variables, only variables that We do not understand, which are countless.

As such, I can try to creatively think myself out of determinism, but ultimately, my neural activities have decided what happens next at a large-scale, subatomic level.

There are a lot of confident assertions here. In fact, you say them as though they are established fact. But they aren't; they are well-accepted theories. But we know from history that the popularity of an idea (and the confidence with which it is therefore asserted socially) and the truth of that idea often have little relation to each other.

The fact is that none of what you just said is proven or provable, at least now. So why are you spelling it out as a description of reality? Simple-- because that's what you believe.