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The part of your mind that generates hypotheses is no less deterministic than the part that tests them. (It's not as if they used different types of neurons!) The only difference is that you don't have conscious access to the process that generates hypotheses, so it looks mysterious and you complete the pattern that mysterious=indeterministic. But even though you can't introspect that part of yourself, you can still influence what options it will offer you, e.g. by priming.
Maybe the two stages are in a time domain, not a space domain.
The "it only seems indeterministic" story is one of a number of stories. It is not a fact. My central point is that to arrive at The Answer, all alternatives have to be considered.
I was mostly trying to argue against the point that human minds need indeterminism to work as they do. Do you now agree that's wrong?
It's not wrong, and it;'s not intended as a mirror-image of the LW official dogma. It's a suggestion. I cannot possibly say it is The Answer, since, for one thing, I don't know if indeterminsim is actually the case. So my central point remains: the solution space remains unexplored, and what I put forward is an example of a neglected possibillity