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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
As for the argument of Free Will... that's quite fascinating as well. I don't think it will go to a place anyone will like. It's already very certain that our understanding of what we believe to be "free will" and an act of conscious volition is deeply flawed and largely an illusion. After all, the simple fact is that conscious awareness is "after the fact"... meaning it comes only after unconscious mental processes have had their way, after the input has been filtered and distorted. Anything that arises to conscious awareness has already passed through endless unconscious mental processes. We do things and tell ourselves "see, i'm in charge"... but we have no real idea of what led up to us doing those things in terms of unconscious processing as the conscious mind has no access to those other processes. Gazaniggas discovery was probably the most fascinating of all... that we constantly lie about nearly everything we experience to escape burning calories thinking about it.
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Here's what I don't understand, you respond to a lot of posts by people who are failing at this business and some at life in general, you analyze them and explain how successful people become successful, implying that these people are largely responsible for their failures. Yet on the other hand you suggest that our brains are working away subconsciously making many of our decisions for us without us really in command. So perhaps many people who fail in life to a significant degree are just being betrayed by their own brains over which they don't have much control.