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Originally Posted by mce
Are Free Will and personal choice and autonomy OVERRATED?
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technically - in the strictest sense, most neuroscientists will argue that you have no free will. that's a long discussion of neuroscience and brain function.
brain processes have no start point and no end point apart from being born and dying and all influence the other in one way or another.
further, almost all of your brains activity happens below conscious awareness - which the conscious you has no access to, so you can never truly know why you did anything, why you like anything, why you raised your arm, when or how that decision was made, much less be sure you chose to do it and know that you chose to do it for the reasons you believe you did... you are only aware of the narrative which rose to conscious awareness which explains why you did something.
you can tell me that you like the color "green". you can never honestly explain why you like green as you have no access to the unconscious mental processes which led you to say "yes".