Events are first in the present, then in the past. As Alan Watts put it; “The wake doesn’t steer the boat, the boat creates the wake.”

To assume the future is predetermined is to assume the computations which decide it have already been made, but there is only this physical present and that is where the computations occur.

Do we take the events, or the state of the present, as more elemental? If we view the events as foundational and the present as the illusion, than yes, it will seem to always be determined.

But what then does the determining, if not the physical dynamic doing the computing?