Interesting discussion.
What clockwork universe of fundamental physics? *sigh* Another author who hasn't understood quantum mechanics. And yes, there are events in the brain that depend on a single quantum mechanical event (if only because neurons in the retina firing can depend on a single quantum mechanical event).
That said List's arguments based on higher level structures being able to have properties that cannot be read off from the components, but only from their organization, is most assuredly valid and stands as (another) critique of determinism.