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A radical implication is then to locate free will in the unconscious. The true acts of freedom are choices made unaware. The consciousness merely registers the

• naasking 8y ago
  > The consciousness merely registers the choices that are already made. A point made in the Matrix movies: you're not here to make a choice, you've already made it. You're here to understand why you've made that choice. I think that's probably a pretty good analogy of how consciousness operates.
• adrianmonk 8y ago
  It wouldn't necessarily have to push it to the unconscious. Free will could be an infrequently-exercised veto power. Which might not even be an unreasonable way to look at it. Many people make a contrast between habit and will. There already seems to be a common idea that much of the time, people do things the way they always have, and it is only at certain key moments that the will asserts itself and changes course.