Lots of definitions flying around. People are answering entirely seperate questions. Like, some people here deny "determinism", when they merely seem to be denying a supernatural, essentially human, being is controlling everything.
What does that have to do with determinism? The being's actions could be "random", AKA "undetermined".
Again, it seems determinism and randomness depend on the point of view, and aren't present within the object itself.
I think humans like to think we are more significant than we really are..
Do you literally mean we are smaller/have less of an impact on the universe?
It's just, significance seems made up by humans. For some arbitrary reason, humans assume the larger thing is more significant than the smaller thing.
Like, adding something large to a scenario of small things, somehow makes the small things less significant? Their impact hasn't lessened, just scaled down when the human focuses on the larger (more dangerous) thing, instinctively.
Significance seems entirely subjective to me.
Give me a single compelling reason to believe that a person with any given person's precise biological being and precise experiences in life should make any decisions contrary to the ones that said hypothetical person makes.
As extra homework, give me a single reason to believe that, should "other decisions" be hypothetically possible to members of our species, why it should matter to any hypothetical member of any hypothetical species living within our universe of uni-lateral time.
What exactly are you trying to say?
There is a future, granted. That future will happen, granted. How does that effect your definitions of determined/undetermined, random/unrandom?
Possibilities are an expression of ignorance. No-one, who's actually thought about it, will suggest that possibilities are anything other than a list of all scenarios we have not ruled out, when trying to decipher what will actually occur. They are simply a matter of knowledge. More precisely, predictability.
It's a similar case with "shoulds", which share a lot with "coulds".
EDIT: I'd add to Mycroft's post "give me a single definition of "free will", that is actually coherent". Freedom is very vague, as a physical property.