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Originally Posted by Chula Vista
I = me. I wake up every day, piss, walk the dogs, take a ****, walk the dogs, shave, take a shower, go to work for 9 hours, go to the market and buy sh*t, stock the shelves, walk the dogs again, pour a drink, watch the TV, go to sleep.
Sometimes I do this note for note.
Sometimes I alter it a bit.
Exactly WTF are you talking about? I have the free will to not walk the dogs and let them **** on the rug. I have the free will to not buy milk when we need it. I have the free will to blow off work and lose my job if I choose to do so.
WTF are you talking about? Give it to me in nuts and bolts, day to day verbiage. No psychobabble.
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Living is just a constant assessment of your wants and needs. You have a reason for walking the dogs, buying milk, going to work, etc., and every day your conciousness decides whether or not to do them. And if it suddenly decided that your wants/needs could be better fulfilled by taking another course of action, then you'd take that different course of action. You might see this as you actively making choices, while others see it as you simply following your mental programming. Just like how a computer processes and analyzes information in a certain way, the human brain does the same thing.
So what JWB is essentially asking is do humans
really decide what we do, or does our programming already have it's reaction to stimuli ready, making our own personal reactions an illusion? For instance, you
say that you had the choice to either walk the dog or not, but you very well may not. You were only ever going to take the course of action that you took, using the information that you had. Your brain may have noticed an imbalance of neuro-chemical feel-good signals spurred on by a feeling of powerlessness in your life, and decided that you needed to express a sense of dominance by refusing to do chores and passing them off to others, even if it seemed in hindsight like a needlessly mean thing to do. Or your brain may have concluded that the best way to improve your odds of social survival was to follow your set routine. The argument can be made that either way, with the factors surrounding you, your brain was only ever going to decide to take the course of action that you ended up taking.