Nothing Is Free
“Long before you’re consciously aware of making a decision, your mind has already made it.
If that’s the case, do people actually make decisions? Or is every choice — even the choice to prepare for future choices — an unthinking, mechanistic procedure over which an illusory self-awareness is laid?” Wired Magazine
Science is finally coming to the conclusion that ’free will’ is an illusion. I began to ponder on free will when I began to ask some serious questions in my mid to late 20’s.
I came across the above article via a mates blog/podcast who has an interesting flow chart on the subject.
Once I realised that there is no such thing as free will – once I understood what thoughts were – life, radically changed.