[sadness2]

I believe that free will is possible. Our conceptions of existence are limited by our perspective; that of a causative (and, OK, possibly random) reality, but it's possible that our wills are interfaced with super-dimensional spirits (souls, if you like). The fact that we cannot conceive of an existence which is not causative does not mean that our spirits do not dwell in one. One way of approximating such an existence is to consider it as "timeless". This timeless spirit may then, in a sense, exercise influence on our wills throughout our entire lifespan, simultaneously (perhaps through a quantum interface). You could call this deterministic, but how is it deterministic in any meaningful sense if our choices are "determined" by a spirit which is, by definition, our essential self, free of circumstantial preconditions?