[FrustratedMonky]

Not too woo woo. Hard not to get woo woo on this subject.

It's just that you frequently use the word 'deterministic'. -> "facet of that deterministic universe."

And then also talk about how we have agency.

Not sure how to square those both occurring unless you are just saying at different scales.

Like the universe is deterministic, but on our human scale we appear to have a choice. But that is just appearance because at our scale there are so many chaotic interactions that the world really appears random and we are making choices.

What I'm saying is that in the brain, you keep boiling down the science at each scale, and at some point you don't find any 'agent', each layer is explained, and every action is the effect of a previous cause.