I'm just going to play devil's advocate.
To coelho: How do you determine whether or not something happens without a definable cause? The determinist would argue that all things are reactions to actions, but we are incapable of observing every one of those actions.
To esoteric: You described epiphanies as your mind drawing connections between ideas that it previously hadn't. Why is this outside of a deterministic viewpoint? Computers are processing thousands of things at once, yet they are still based on an action/reaction reality. The determinists would say that our minds are merely super developed computers.
nacci11235 Reviewed by nacci11235 on . Original Thought Are thoughts merely reactions to stimuli? By that I mean, are thoughts completely causal, or can we have thoughts that are not direct reactions to stimuli. If we can, that implies that we have free will, in the deterministic sense. If not, well, then determinism holds more weight, I guess. Rating: 5