Thats a great theory but then how come we can make decisions? A rock is unarguably mindless, we humans though can think. The rock can never for any reason decide that it doesnt want to fall into the water. We and other animals have motor skills and can avoid water altogether. The key attribute that allows that to happen is a brain. Organisms with brains can decide to go into water or not. The rock is just a rock and will do nothing but what physics says it will do.
My argument is we don't make decisions .... we think we do, but it's all just mechanical. We don't think, it's all just mechanical, we have thoughs, they exist, but they are all caused mechanically, they don't cause actions ... (epiphenominalism).
A brain, doesn't change that, since a brain is still ONLY matter, and like a rock, will do nothing but what physicas and chemistry tell it to do, a brain is complex ... yeah.
Also ithe reason animals and humans avoid the water, is physical and chemical reactiosn in the brain, all caused physically and chemically.
Yes I know that you will say that organisms with brains are just more complicated but still are determined by the same physics to do whatever physics dictates, which is true. But along that chain of events decision making organisms exist. Again dont confuse all of this with the idiotic concept that people call free will. The fact that an organism can make a decision doesnt somehow mean that the decision was outside of the laws of physics.
Forget about free will its nonexistent and pointless, just a fantasy. Many moons ago I tried to argue for free will but I came to realize that the concept lacked any real foundation in reality. So when you start denying observable concepts like decision making or throwing around concepts like agent and what not you really are not talking about my assertions just trying to assign my assertions to the concept of free will. Its like arguing about the
heavenly sphere, it will get nowhere as long as you maintain a dogmatic theory of existence. Again I am fine with my thoughts on the subject, I just believe that brains have functions and that rocks are nothing more than a inanimate object. A organism with a brain will react on a profoundly different level than a rock to its surroundings. The rocks reaction to its surroundings can be predicted given all the data. A organism with a brain can be predicted too, perhaps if we had all the data. But that is just a theory that has not been proven to be correct.
the fact that it can be predicted in theory is a logical necessity .. it it is just a more complex form of matter ... I mean EVERYTHING that is just physcial and subject to physical laws can by necessarily predicted.
If you want to claim that brains can be predicted you are going to need to show that they can be predicted. Theoretical and philosophical pondering's cant show that a brain can be predicted to do anything. While we are at it your theory that everything is predetermined on into infinity starting perhaps with the big bang needs to be proven as well. The obvious proven problem with a predetermined universe is on the quantum scale. The theory was really good up until it was shown that true indeterminism in quantum mechanics exists. The best that you could say is that existence is somewhat predetermined. To what extent does quantum mechanics play in the universe? After all small exists everywhere.
Of coarse they can show, unless you think that they are the ONLY physical object in nature that cannot be understood ... THAT is an extraordinary claim that needs extraordinary evidence (using the battle cry of atheists), what your saying is that the brain is the only unique physical object that cannot be fully understood theoretically.
With Quantum mechanics, it becomes determined on a larger scale do to probibilities, but quantum mechanics can still be predicted, but just based on probibilities which when compounded lead to accurate predictions.
"uncertainty" and "certainty" a combination of both allows the existence of a certain amount of the predetermined and the undetermined. You cant with any believable certainty tell me how much of our existence is predetermined by physics and how much quantum mechanics have screwed with those physical determinations. So I find it very doubtful that every cause and effect going back to the big bang can be predicted mathematically not when there exists true indeterminism in nature even if its at a quantum scale.
So are my thoughts predetermined exclusively by physics alone? Doubt exists that every thought is predetermined. Does it point to free will? lol no it points to cracks in the theory of Determinism. The Universe does not revolve around the Earth or the Moon.
Even if indeterminism is primary ... it doesn't show that the brain is any more indeterminate than a rock ...
Also what does your last sentance have to do with anything?