Our brains reveal our choices before we're even aware of them

https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2019/03/our-brains-reveal-our-choices-before-were-even-aware-of-them--st

by andsoitis • 6 months ago

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gnosis67• 6 months ago

more automatic and unconscious than we think

It goes both ways.

We are our deeper self, not the fleeting illusion of compulsive awareness in the now as our conventional account suggests.

Those who develop “inward” (who truly have the power of will, not the act of “choosing” as of the lay mind) know the self is like a captain on a ship that one gets out of what one puts in.

Articles like these encourage the modern American nihilist to write off the power of self determination in favor of sweeping behavioral policies.

They suggest you will be happy with whatever you’re doing, once the divergent phase of transition settles down.

Free will, is that our wills are not coerced through force or fraud (not that we aren’t fools by default.)

Determinism is a dead debate when potential is beyond bounds of account. The question of will and the potentials of consciousness come down to what do WE determine to resolve in the moment of “now”, not what best available choice is before us.

Our brains reveal our choices before we're even aware of them

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