 A major obstacle to accepting compatibilism is our persuasion that determinism implies inevitability (Dennett 2003: 25). We may thus make compatibilism palatable by exhibiting an intuitive counterexample to that conviction: a deterministic world in which, however, not everything is inevitable, i.e., something is avoidable (Ibid: 56). Dennett maintains that CA can do this. He takes Life as a vivid illustration of how, in a deterministic but complex enough world, we can abstract away from the bottom level and the micro-laws deterministically governing it, and describe what is happening by taking the emergent level seriously. Recall the eater-glider dynamics: 