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You're familiar with the idea of a butterfly effect, right Dilbert? That's the though I was relying on in my example with the stegosaurus. Clearly I could pick a more plausible example closer in time.
I'm not so concerned with what I'd prefer to believe in as what I'm required to believe in, given my premises. So my question to Dilbert is whether he believes we are responsible for our actions, and, if so, how that's possible under his deterministic picture.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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