Do I have a choice? (determinism vs libertarianism vs compatibilism)

Yes. You can get the set of all primes by following a very simple recipe: Take the set of all numbers and remove everything that isn't prime. Probably because all the ones you're thinking of are nonrandom. You're right. While the former contains the latter, it says some other things as well.

Ahhh... I see the problem. You're disassociating the set from the method. I'm not, as you should've gotten from, "expression of."

It wasn't a simulation of evolution -- it was evolution itself.Kevin Kelly -- Chapter 15: Artificial Evolution

I see you don't have a clue about self-replicating programs.

You're looking at this the wrong way. You're comparing two things -- the universe as it is and the universe as it is not; seeing that they lead to different places, and using that to support that the outcome isn't inevitable. The problem is that you're assuming that the universe can change. It can't, as it can only be what it is. It cannot be what it is not.So, if in order for the outcome to change, the impossible must occur, can the outcome actually change?Edited by DominionSeraph, : No reason given.

Time is included in the universe. What you will choose is already determined. Since its already included, there's no wait. (and what timestream would the universe be waiting in, anyway?)Edited by DominionSeraph, : No reason given.

Your limitations are irrelevant.

You don't understand the difference between hardware and software?

To who?
Don't even know the meaning of 'relevant', eh?

No you don't, or you wouldn't be asking that.

More than a bit. I want you to do better.

Software - Wikipedia
"Software fundamentally is the unique image or representation of physical or material alignment that constitutes configuration to or functional identity of a machine,"Software is a representation of a segment of reality. You can leave the representation out without affecting anything, as it's not real. Software doesn't affect anything -- the physical state of the hardware does as it acts on itself.
So, software is a special case, as it wouldn't be integrated into a deterministic model. That doesn't mean that a deterministic model of a computer that only includes what's really there is flawed.

Don't confuse motion for freedom. Did you choose to do that? If so, do you have the ability to suspend choosing whether or not you will suspend choosing while you judge the merits of following one course of action (suspending choosing) or another (not to suspend)?
If so, can you suspend choosing that?
And that?
And that?"I'm going to judge whether or not best course of action is to judge whether or not the best course of action is to judge whether or not the best course of action is to judge whether or not the best course of action is to judge whether the best course of action is to do A or B."Edited by DominionSeraph, : No reason given.

The difference lies in their reality. Hardware is real, software not. Understanding this should lead to an understanding of why software would be left out of a model of reality.Edited by DominionSeraph, : No reason given.

He implied that it was improper to do such a thing by using it as his rationale for dismissal. By doing the same thing quite properly, I highlighted the hole. I never claimed to have your ease as a goal.