G'morning David, 

 -> While I'm aware of good evidence that humans don't enjoy the
 -> freewill they think they have,  your `reality' here would remove
 -> even the charting of new courses by true random chance....which
 -> itself would necesarily be illusory.

 DW> I agree. In a sense, it would mean that every event, in the past,
 DW> present and future, in some sense already "is".

 DW> If that's the way it is, then that's the way it is.

If that's the way it is,  then that's an amazing state of play;  
and some interesting way of testing the notion must exist...

It brings back to mind the experience of one of my anthropological 
lecturers who discovered a small stone that had been somehow 
placed, with prehuman artifacts, on a ledge in the Oldawai Gorge 
millions of years earlier.  He shared a fancy which had the stone 
waiting patiently for humans to evolve, explore and finally 
disturb it.

In view of man's increasing concern with `political correctness', 
is it not astonishing to the viewpoint you put forward that our 
history still boasts monsters such as the ethnic cleansers ?
How on earth do all future humans resist the urge to purge the  
past, present and future world of such evil anomalies ?

:-)
 
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