[Alamo-Girl]

Let me note once again that Pinker does not acknowledge that strong determinism leads to the absence of free will.

Indeed. And may I counter with js1138's see-saw of determinism beginning at post 804!

[Right Wing Professor]

You are conflating deteminism with predictability. Many phenomena evolve deterministically (as far as we know) without being computable or predictable. They may either be too complex to compute, or they may be chaotic. js1138 said (and I agree) 'The inability precisely to predict the future is at the core of what we perceive as free will'.