Hi all, my name is Nils, like Neil, with an s. Am residing in New Zealand, Dutch genes, lived all over. Currently in my third year at university majouring in psychology (orgainisational) and doing HRM and management on the side. Strong INTJ preference.

Now to the point;

I have had heated debates with ENTP friend on free will vs free choice and to what extent it exists within determinism. It went something like;

1 He thinks free will exists, I dispute his claims by arguing influence of any kind infringes on pure freedom of will.
2 I introduce free choice, our will may be impaired, we still have a choice to call our own.
3 I argue determinism exists, free choice within it.
4 He appears to be stuck in accepting a definition of determinism and refuses to accept determinism and calls free choice a technicality of terminology.
5 I leave angered whilst cursing all phil students.

Now does determinism exist? If so why?

When I say determinism I am talking about all events existing in a totally interrelated string of cause and effect, spun into happening since the first cause. Some would say the uncaused cause is God, his creation being the first cause, others that the uncaused cause is nothing which somehow exploded into everything (first cause), causing what you see outside and what you do in your life. Now is this true? Is everything predetermined by prior causes? Hope my crude definition is clear enough.