tisonlyi

And you're the chooser? The one that sits inside your head and pulls the levers, eh?

Human beings are very much more of a pattern-reflection device with added narrative creation for dissemination of said patterns, successful or otherwise.

Choice requires decisions.

A decision requires information over situations and options, which at some point the decider decides is sufficient, and then you can decide to decide... etc.

Each 'decision', when you look at it, contains an unending recursion.

That's without even thinking about left brain/right brain differences, etc.

For me, the process is about exposure and response.

The whole DECIDER who DECIDES seems rather silly.

Even to the point of our language... There are languages, most Asian languages for example, where the whole idea of free will and absolute individuality is utterly ludicrous from within the world view engineered by that language...

This is a very Western-centric preoccupation/disease.

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