As I reconsider the question of determinism, I find that am not so sure any longer and that I have doubts about the origins of the certainty of the belief I had in it earlier. I wonder whether my certainty came more from the implications determinism had — and, perhaps more importantly, the implications of most views of free will that I wished to combat — than with logical argument.
At the same time that I find myself no longer so sure about determinism, free will seems so preposterous a concept to me. Ironic, no?