Why bother with effort and hardship if, at the end of the day, I will always do the one and only thing I was predetermined to do anyway?
You are imagining yourself as a free spirit imprisoned in a deterministic machine, but if “everything that will happen throughout the lifetime of the universe was predetermined at the beginning of the universe”, then you were also predetermined to resolutely plough through the effort and hardship (if you do). Everything still adds up to normality.
We speak of a self-driving car as interpreting and making decisions about what it sees in front of it and how to deal with it, despite it being a designed machine. Why suppose that human drivers are doing anything less?
You are imagining yourself as a free spirit imprisoned in a deterministic machine, but if “everything that will happen throughout the lifetime of the universe was predetermined at the beginning of the universe”, then you were also predetermined to resolutely plough through the effort and hardship (if you do). Everything still adds up to normality.
We speak of a self-driving car as interpreting and making decisions about what it sees in front of it and how to deal with it, despite it being a designed machine. Why suppose that human drivers are doing anything less?
Except some things are mistakes or illusions.