Nothing justifies retributive punishment. Our consciousness is not caused by the universe, it is a real part of it. I can't spell out the nature of conscious freedom without going into the ontology of consciousness and the nature of freedom. The problem here was free will and its seemingly illusory nature. My solution navigates between quantum mysticism, wittgensteinian deflationism, new age relativism, dennetian eliminativism, and dualistic atomism. In a later post i can go into the positive ontology.