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We also argue whether others outside of our mind are self-aware.

And most physicists think free will is bunk and therefore we are not self-aware, everything is an illusion.




I’m not a physicist bu I’ve been observing my choices for years (Advaita practice) and still haven’t noticed anything I could call free will.

Unless we agree to call “life long conditioning, genetic makeup, trauma responses, habitual responses, present emotional state, thoughts and beliefs, environment, stimuli, any and all cultural influences, present blood sugar, hormonal levels, pulse, all preferences associated with avoidance of pain and striving for pleasure etc.” and a bunch of other factors which factors are absolutely out of our control, “free will”.

Once I started unpacking the phrase it became nonsensical.




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