Wednesday, October 5, 2011

We may not posses free will, but we possess free won't

You may be surprised about the 'we may not posses free will' part, but how do we know if you do? There is research that shows that something in our heads clicks at a time of a decision well ahead of the time when we are consciously aware of this decision. Perhaps we are part of a pre-determined movie plot and all we do is to consciously assign a 'rational response' to a pre-determined outcome. Weird stuff, eh?

I have no idea about the 'free will' part, but I do know about the 'free won't'. Every morning I am heading to the gym at 5am, I say to myself, 'I won't quit'; every time I see yummy fast food and every time I am tempted to go for that extra cup of coffee or extra glass of wine and beer I say to myself 'I won't'. Of course there will be some who say that even that exercise of willpower has been pre-determined, well, then so be it, I feel proud of my accomplishment nevertheless.

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