Photons and determinism, part 2

[Surgenator]

"The answer must be no. No time has passed for that photon in its long journey, so it was always going to arrive at my eye, and no matter what happens in its journey, this is written in stone."

Something heading toward you and hitting you does not prove it was determined. You have to show that all cases with the same starting conditions will produce the same effect. We know this is not the case because some of the photons hit other stuff alone the way.

The hitting the eye isn't the proof. It is the lack of the passage of time which means we must mold our understanding of the universe primarily around light.

If you have 100 photons ,released in 0.1 second intervals, from the moon, all heading toward the same eye on earth (takes about 1.2 seconds), how many will actually hit the eye? According to your logic, all 100 of them. We know this is not the case because some of the photons will hit the air molecules in the atmosphere. The flaw in your logic is in the application of a tautological statement. Your taking the tautological statement, 'the photon that hit my eye had no choice but to hit my eye', and then applying it to the photons that didn't hit your eye.

Determinism requires that the same initial conditions leads to the same results. You have not demonstrated that another photon must hit your eye just because a previous one did.