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Originally Posted by TheBig3
Well this sounds like the same problem we're having in the eSports thread. What is free will?
I won't argue that people have a predilection toward acting one way or another. I'd agree. But the idea that we can't overthrow that just won't jive with my view of the world. I'm guessing I'm not understanding you here, but I assume you'd agree with that.
As an example. I like to sleep a lot more than I like to work. Still, I get up at 6 every day to go to work and forego an extra 3 hours of sleep. I'm designed to want to sleep, but by virture of my wanting to eat and having a Super Ego, I get up and I go to work.
Are we talking about different things?
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You're mind recognizes the need to maintain a job in our society, that the negatives of sleeping in outweigh the postives. In your case, the Super Ego appears to outrank the need of sleep.
Just because we don't have free will, doesn't mean our thinking is primitive. We have a high enough intelligence to recognize cause and effect, and consequences of actions.