That's pretty sweet, TD! I'm gonna read up on that;
OP; The standard model of determinism says that we have the
illusion of free will. We do make decisions, but the choices we make are essentially the only choice we could have possibly made with all the variables of the universe being how they were. For example, let's pretend there's an entity (GOD) for this example, that is independent of time. This means God can stop, start, rewind, etc., time at will without it affecting him. No one else in existence would have knowledge of this, and whatever action they were doing at the time would resume normally.
Let's say you're headed to the store to buy a drink. While you're standing in front of the coolers, you decide you want a coke. So, you open the door and grab a can of coke. Now, god watching from above says "Whoa, I want to see if he'd change his mind to a different drink if I rewind him", so he rewinds time appox 5 seconds and lets it resume.
Here's where determinism gets neat IMO! Every atom, every molecule,
everything we can
see, and
not see, literally EVERYTHING in existence would be rewound to the place it was before. Your thoughts would be the same, every piece of information you have in your brain would be identical, so how could you possibly choose a different drink? A different choice would require a different set of variables in the universe, which if everything was rewound; all variables would be identical.
From the moment space and time began, you were going to get a coke at that exact time, at that exact place and there is no other possibility that could have taken place in
this existence.
