(July 26, 2016 at 1:34 pm)mh.brewer Wrote:(July 26, 2016 at 12:46 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: [edit]
You are coerced by environmental factors. You can't escape them. And no matter how much you rationalize your decisions after the fact, it's been proven beyond a doubt that most of the time people have no idea why they do what they do. They come up with reasons if asked, and they truly believe those reasons, but they turn out to be wrong more often than not. Because you see, you are only conscious about so much that goes on in your brain and gives rise to your consciousness and subsequently to your decisions. But you don't control any of it. It controls you. You only experience control, but it isn't really there at all.
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Sounds like the non existence of free will because of the presence of an omniscient god. It's only an illusion. Good one!
Replace god with universe, and that's exactly what it is.