Determinism, Free Will and Paradox

[Mudhammam]

Also benny, it's not a trivial question such as your one about lighting or that of even "free will." The differences here aren't simply "upward/downward" or "forward backward"; it's what makes a difference between causal and non-causal sequences versus regular succession/regression, and is the phenomena of directional change merely mental, which if it is, would seem to me to render the entire projects of philosophy and science to be illusory in that they have absolutely no hold on the functionality of the objects in which sense data is drawn out to establish conclusions... about anything, even your argument; I think experience would indicate otherwise.