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If Choices And Decisions Derive From Hidden Mental Processes, Then Free Choice Is Either An Illusion Or, At Minimum, More Tightly Constrained Than Previously Considered.

All Creation Necessarily Ends In This: Creators, Powerless, Fleeing From The Things They Have Wrought.

We Are Made Up Of An Entire Parliament Of Pieces And Parts And Subsystems. Beyond A Collection Of Local Expert Systems, We Are Collections Of Overlapping, Ceaselessly Reinvented Mechanism, A Group Of Competing Factions. The Conscious Mind Fabricates Stories To Explain The Sometimes Inexplicable Dynamics Of The Subsystem Inside Brain. It Can Be Disquieting To Consider The Extent To Which All Of Our Actions Are Driven By Hardwired Systems Doing What They Do Best While We Overlay Stories About Choices.

In My View, The Argument From Parsimony Is Really No Argument At All - It Typically Functions Only To Shut Down More Interesting Discussion. If History Is Any Guide, It's Never A Good Idea To Assume That A Scientific Problem Is Cornered.

Who We Can Be Begins With Our Molecular Blueprints - A Series Of Alien Codes Penned In Invisibly Small Strings Of Acids - Well Before We Have Anything To Do With It. We Are A Product Of Our Inaccessible, Microscopic History.