The Continuing Converstion...Determinism and Free Will - How Much and How Little?

I always remembered this particular scene from the movie “The Crying Game” and I believe it was the imagery from the story of the scorpion and the frog that left a lasting impression upon my imagination.

It has been some time since I first saw this movie and much has happened with my thinking on free will and determinism. I have much more reading to do in the areas of the biological and neurological sciences - not so much in the biblical or theological spheres of my thinking. Theologically I am firmly on the libertarian free will /open theism side of things.

However, how the deterministic neurological activity presents itself coupled with our biology is something quite different.
The neuro-net determinism of the brain is not a theological concept, even though there may be theological implications to the realty of this truth. The aspect of the neurology of the brain that I am most interested in is the possibility (the libertarian free will part of me) of the neurology to be altered – to use biblical language – transformed.

I need to do more reading and thinking about all of this and by no means am I in a position to speak authoritatively on these subjects. As the title to this series of posts makes clear – this is the beginning of and a continuing conversation…