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Consequently when we respond to an event our mind does not follow the same laws of causality as the event that caused it. The event is translated into the minds interpretation of reality. The response is determined according to the laws of causality within the mind. The mind then uses the body to translate its response back into the physical reality at which point physical causality continues.
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We are slaves to our synapses and our bodies, but that doesn't seem to preclude still having and kind of "freewill". The facticity of our body and chemistry is the same as the facticity of the composition of the earth that we walk on. This is just another layer of absurdity that could have been added into Camus's essay "An Absurd Reasoning". As often as we look at cause and effect, there is something different that humans have - intention. Does the earth intend to make me cold when a cold front floats through? Does the wind intend to fascinate me by its sounds? Did the thunderstorm intend to inspire me to write a poem relating my emotions surrounding my life and relationships with other to the metaphor of electricty?
If all hard determinism says is that we are greatly determined by our situations, including our bodies... then I can agree to that. But going beyond to this concept that every cause and effect is determined by something as though it were simply a physics problem, I don't buy it for a second. Life isn't in binary.