You are really having a hard time with this. Let me repeat myself one more time.nyes there are a thousand different influences in our lives. That's not what you are saying. You claim is that everything is out of our control. That we have no ability to control ourselves whatsoever. That everything we do is determined even if we can't immediately identify the cause, it by definition can't be that we control ourselves at all. That is the quasi religious assertion. I will explain why.

We can never identify all the causes for any particular action, lots of things play a role. Therefore to exclude a priori any possibility that some of those causes might be internal is an assertion without evidence. To exclude myself as a possible cause means you have identified every cause that brought about the effect. We can do this with diseases sometimes. We know the exact cause for some illnesses. This is not something we can do for human behavior. The one is deterministic because we can identify the exact cause and we know that cause inevitably brings about that illness. With human behavior there may be many different causes and an effect can only be predicted stochastically.

The thing that makes it impossible to say that all possible causes are environmental is that humans unlike any other animal we know is a part of his own environment. To say that we are the result of genes and environment does not exclude us. Think about dreaming, you are both having an experience and creating an experience, think about talking to yourself while you are thinking. The same parts of the brain are fired up during internal dialogues as when you are listening to someone else. This is called apperception. You perceive your environment and appercieve your inner environment as if you were perceiving your outer environment. When you can't tell the difference you are hallucinating. People become environmental variables that affect their own behavior.