Consciousness and free will are old and still not resolved questions of biology, psychology, and philosophy. Countless different theorie...
Consciousness and free will are old and still not resolved questions of biology, psychology, and philosophy. Countless different theories have been born in verification and refutation as well. Here is one more theory.
Our acts are determined by the external environment and our internal states. Experiments show that the decision in our brain happens earlier than the conscious will to do the action as if free will does not exist. It is as if our consciousness is only a mere observer of our actions.
Is there really no free will, and is what we see in fact just an illusion? Probably this is the case in many instances. The environment and our internal states determine our actions, and no free will is necessary. Consequently, by logic, it follows that we are actually robots, robots who are at least able to monitor their own operation, can observe, but cannot change their actions. Are we awakened but still robots?
As HUMAN, we do not want to see ourselves like that. We want to look at ourselves as human beings, free-willed, and self-conscious. We imagine ourselves able to act freely and able to make voluntary decisions.
How can we be more than an awakened-to-its-consciousness robot? If we are conscious, but only observers of our actions, how are we able to guide our actions? In what way can we have free will?
Our minds can consciously and willingly guide our desires, and through this guidance of desires, our minds can indirectly start actions and influence our acts and our behavior. Our conscious minds can control our actions by guiding, manipulating, and certainly by timing our desires. It is an indirect, higher will, but it is a determinant of our actions. The implemented, and this way aware action may act as a feedback control to the mind, to reach the intended target.
Even if we are merely spectators of our actions on the operational level, somehow beyond that we are able to determine, in some yet unknown way, our desires by our minds and able to influence our internal states. We are, even if only indirectly, able to control our actions.
Maybe we are HUMAN anyway.
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