| jason1637 said: No. People can decide to do something or not. I decided to reply to this when i could have ignored it. |
This is a really poor comment. That's the entire point of the OP's question. Everyone has this seeming choice, but whether or not there is an actual choice is what's up for the debate.
But your response is contingent upon conscious decision-making, which we know is absolute nonsense. We know that the subconscious is what governs us, and it's something we neither control nor are aware of in any meaningful sense. At the risk of being reductionist, what *you* are is merely this conscious agent, making *you* subservient to this unconscious thing that decides everything while you're merely a passenger for its dictums.
At a basic level, it's the same relationship that your monitor has with your CPU/GPU. It's merely displaying what the computer tells it to. In this same way, you are merely acting in accordance with the subconscious.
All of this is mangled up in the concept of self as well, which is a pity, because the self is yet another illusion.
