For one thing, free will is an oxymoron. The premise of will is to affect and without cause, there is no effect.

The flaw in determinism is that the act of determination can only occur as the present. The future simply has not been computed yet.

While math might seem static, operations are effectively verbs.

As mobile organisms, this sentient interface our body has with its situation functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so our sense of time is the present going past to future, yet the evident reality is that activity and the resulting change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is only this state we refer to as the present. Cause becomes effect. It is like a tapestry being woven from strands being pulled from what was woven.

Now it could be argued that as all potential input into any event necessarily pre-exists that event, it must mean everything is predetermined.

Yet that assumes some overall frame in which these factors can be placed, rather than simply bubbling up across the dimensionality of space.

The problem is that such frames are finite, while the larger reality is infinite. The map can't include all the information from the territory, or the signal is lost back into the noise.

Light arrives from opposite directions to every point, so such a frame would also have to transcend the speed of light.

There is no omniscient omniscience. The absolute is the elemental, not the ideal.

Happy 2025.