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So determinism is a linear function right? Take the past conditions and you can predict the future. To a certain extent. Like weather predictions- we see determinism in fluid dynamical systems and can say based on these conditions tomorrow will probably be cloudy or something, but because we can't go waaaaay back to the initial conditions of the system to as infinite degree, we can't predict what's going to happen that far ahead. I think our free will is similar. There is such complexity that things go to infinity or zero. Within that infinity we have patterns, we have nodes where things have a tendency to happen in an orderly manner - the Nietzsche concept of the eternal recurrence or Joseph Campbels perinealities, and then we have chaos that is totally baked into the system. That's why I think we are free. Of course we are also determined! But not infinitely determined. We have infinite length in a finite area.
My conjucture is that something is deterministic or not, nothing in between. And as was mentioned above, determinism may be not unique or not at all factor in the discussion about the free will.