God's judgement and Determinism

Why do you say that? It seems a perfectly reasonable assertation.

You could argue that all of your experiences, learning and native ability to moderate implusive behaviour dictate that you absolutely will not bash the kiddies head in.If you think about the mountains of reasons you have not to bash the kids' head in you could conclude that you have almost no choice at all in regards to selecting or not selecting that particular behaviour.

Well I guess I could say that the boundaries that most people have on their behaviour when confronted with the type of stimulus that could drive one to this type of violence are not in place.When people get too angry thay can have no self control at all which argues that when we are in a high state of emotion (without the learnt control methods or even with damage to the limbic system) we are not acting by violition.Either way you cut it your emotions alter your behviour: is it enough to limit free will? My opinion is that it is.

Not sure exactly what you are looking for with a 'dimensional analysis'. Do you want me to do the analysis or do a lit review?Sounds like a longitudinal study but could you clarify?

Hm... I certainly would argue that a black or white yes or no is bogus.Can you have a sliding scale of free will? I work sometimes with gambling addicts who seem to have no free will at all under certain conditions.All of our actions are influenced by our thoughts/emotions/physiology and it may be that we have to draw an arbitary line where we say:"this mode of thinking is sufficiently free or motivators/inhibtors (both external and internal) that we can call it 'free will'".I think I have to agree with you that the number of variable is too large ever model behaviour in such a way that we could predict human behaviour to such an extent that we can assume free will is an illusion.Does'nt half get my brain going thinking about it though

I think it would be more accurrate to say that there will always be internal and external motivators to behaviour and there will never be a time in our lives when our behaviour is not based on something.However, you could draw a line in the sand and say "this is the point when these motivators are so limited in effect that the exhibited behaviours could be called free will".But you are still left with the idea that all behviour is exhibited for some reason, even if that reason in unidentifiable.When you get down to it it's our emotions that normally dictate our behaviour: we select the behaviour based on our aversion/attraction to it.

In theory yes. But practically no.

Well I've argued before that the xian gods judgement is stupid because it is able to put the theory into practical applicataion.The xian god is supposed to be able to predicte with absolute certainty the actions of anyone at at any time under any circumstances.It make him a bit of a bastard really, if he judges us for doing what he already knew we would do under conditions he set up.