Quote Originally Posted by dragonrider
That is a good point.

It would seem that if this model were true, then the future is determined. But we percieve that we do make choices and our choices do make a difference to the future --- I've always believed that. So maybe this idea is just wrong. Or maybe there is some way that we have free choice within our moment-by-moment perspective, but when you look at the entirety of time from outside of our moment-by-moment perspective, we have already made our choices. Is that possible?

It always gets crazy when you try to look at things outside of the way you experinece them in your everyday life. Basically, you have to live your life as if reality is the way you experience it and your choices matter.
If you follow String theory, and quantum physics in general, they state that if there is no way to determine what is going to happen for certain, 100%, at a specific moment, then everything that was possible to happen at that moment happens, but all in seperate alternate universes.

If this is true, then its possible for the "future" to be predetermined, but for us to still have the illusion of free will, and in some ways, it not be an illusion.

I am not so sure how much I buy into the infinite alternate universes idea, even though it is fundamental to quantum physics... but it is another way to look at it.