The Manipulation Argument

If determinism is true according to this particular challenge, we call it the manipulation argument, then the following is possible. We've got an omniscient Diana who knows all about the conditions of the world and she know all about the laws of nature. She's going to create a zygote and she's going to combine the atoms of the zygote in such a way that an event is going to occur that she wants in 30 years time. So I would think of this as an autonomous or competibless compliant agent. But when you think about it, the unusual way in which this particular zygote came into being is not that different in relevant respects from the way any