Recognise free will is an illusion and reap the emotional benefits | Psyche Ideas
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Recognise free will is an illusion and reap the emotional benefits | Psyche Ideas
When you focus on an object or move your eyes, what causes you to want to do that? If it's a thought, where does that thought come from?
Having answered that, continue to ask what caused the thing you answered.
You will soon find that every action and every thought you make is caused by something else prior to that, like domino pieces falling over o... See more
Having answered that, continue to ask what caused the thing you answered.
You will soon find that every action and every thought you make is caused by something else prior to that, like domino pieces falling over o... See more
Waking Up - A New Operating System for Your Mind
neuroscientists that we as individuals often do not make choices based on our “free will,” but that such choices can be made for us by specific drives for survival that are controlled by centers deep in our subconscious/unconscious brains, far out-of-sight of our thinking, conscious “free-will decision maker.”
Mel Robin • A 21st-Century Yogasanalia: Celebrating the Integration of Yoga, Science, and Medicine
Pretend that you have free will. It’s essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don’t. The reality isn’t important; what’s important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.
Ted Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
And when people claim that there are causeless causes of your behavior that they call “free will,” they have (a) failed to recognize or not learned about the determinism lurking beneath the surface and/or (b) erroneously concluded that the rarefied aspects of the universe that do work indeterministically can explain your character, morals, and beha
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