Ehh... free will?

[Excited Penguin]

Motives are causes from within.

^^^This is why ultimately there is no such thing as "self-motivation".^^^

"You", your conscious self, can only control motives with other motives. Ultimately those motives have to come from elsewhere... the regress leads to all behavior ultimately being caused by things that are not conscious.

This is more reason to believe that consciousness is an illusion as well. In my mind, consciousness went right out the door with free will, but of course I'm not a philosopher, so I can't explain it better than that, I don't think.

Or, at least, I'm referring to what some people understand by consciousness.