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So to try to explain further why materialistic determinism is flawed in a brief manner (hard to do as books can be written with much needed detail to grasp this firmly) here is some further philosophy fun:
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Consciousness and free will is the subsequent phenomenon to the material universe---the only universe as distinguished from the non-existent supernatural realm. What in fact is the proper clarification of the perspective of man regarding his place in existence is this: "I am therefore I think." and not "I think therefore I am."

The recognition of the law, A is A, is an irreducible primary unaffected by observation. That axiom has its own laws on how matter interacts with matter. Where the conflation of consciousness enslaved to the infinite machinations of chemistry and material comes from the equivocation of how living entities are emphatically different from inanimate matter. A rock moved by the pressures of the world around it has no life, no consciousness, no sentience and is thus determined to whatever fate impinges upon it at any time. What man possesses is life---which unlike matter can cease to exist entirely by the state of death---and so the inevitability of life itself in fact forces man into an irreducible choice: life or death---but by what means? What is our tool to sustain life? The mind. How? By thought.

There are number of uncontrollable factors that can be said, to thrust life, upon an entity and some of those entities such as low functioning animals do act to live as I said in my previous post. What man possesses in his fundamental nature, immutable and inescapable, is ability to act for life or against it.

To retread some ground in order to be as clear as possible, because the brain is material and has electrical impulses and whatever else chemical processes that allows for the process of abstraction and other functions of the consciousness---does not invalidate choices to be made. It does not even determine the ultimate fate in the sense that death is inescapable and thus we're determined to death and that's why free will doesn't exist and we're determined---no, because free will does operate for the life we inhabit and not the corpses we are after when life has finished. No one "lives" or experiences itself as a inanimate, dead corpse.
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