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Feelings have a behavioral component that can conceivably operate without consciousness. But they also have a self-explanatory component. I fled because I was f
by hackinthebochs 3y ago
Feelings have a behavioral component that can conceivably operate without consciousness. But they also have a self-explanatory component. I fled because I was fearful. I intrinsically understand this, which is why there isn't an incongruity between my willed actions and my more automatic behaviors. It allows my ability to process contextual information and evaluate action plans to be congruent with my low-context immediate (i.e. unconscious) processing. Consciousness is a part of the boundary between low context processes and high context decision-making. It's not clear to me you can have high context decision-making without consciousness. It certainly isn't an issue that can be settled just by noting that feelings help survival.
- dangitnotagain 3y agoTo reiterate how free will may be considered from an earlier post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36262418 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36262418 It is not that will cannot be coopted, or controlled, or predictable based on common patterns, it is that will is arbitrarily available at the discretion its possessor that makes it “free.” Will, is the determinate resolve (of our “potential of being”). Will, the determination of resolve. That you may exercise your determination at your discretion is your free will. That you may be under some other influence is a psycho-intellectual complexity that is each’s lot to resolve, those who would be “masters” of their own. As an aside, determinism in general fails by lack of account (always an encompassing scope of interceding unknown variance), and decay (it is falling apart consistent only by eventuality.)