Waking Up - A New Operating System for Your Mind

we know that we are unable accurately to introspect about the workings of our minds. We thematize the results of our introspection in certain ways. One way we tend to thematize the experience of a particular intention is to adopt it as a product that arises solely from some exercise of free (causally-exempt) will.

I think it is important to separate the idea that we are making decisions in our day to day life from whether or not we are making these decisions completely of our free will.. For instance., the types of decisions that you make when you move your arm certainly seem to be made by us. We make decisions everyday to do things in our lives. However, th... See more

Ultimately, we have no free will, because we aren’t outside the chain of cause and effect and randomness, as others have explained in more detail. But we do have something you might arguably call “proximate free will,” in that what I referred to as the “decision-making parts of our brains” are evolved psychological mechanisms that are like algorith... See more

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