It wasn’t chance or determinism that wrote his speech. Simply because we don’t choose our parents, and cannot control the forces of nature in our life, it doesn’t follow that we have no control over our lives. We don’t have to embrace absolutes.
Anyone interested in brain science should listen to this TED lecture from a scientist describing her experience of a stroke. Brilliant.
Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight | Video on TED.com