Annaka Harris

We'll do it for the rest of my life.

We'll do it for the rest of my life.

We'll do it for the rest of my life.

There's something inherently liberating about touching a place that feels imperishable, that feels like it can't die. Yes.

There's something inherently liberating about touching a place that feels imperishable, that feels like it can't die. Yes.

There's something inherently liberating about touching a place that feels imperishable, that feels like it can't die. Yes.

First of all, I really think it's important to make a distinction between free will and conscious will, and we'll get into that in a moment.

So free will in terms of our brain as a system in nature making complex decisions and doing all of the complex processing it does, there is a decision-making process in nature that our brains undergo that we can call free will.

That's fine to use that shorthand for that.

Although once we get into the details, I might...

convince you that it's not so free, but the decision-making process is a process in nature.

The feeling, our conscious experience of feeling like consciousness is the thing that is driving the behavior, that is

I would say in most cases, an illusion.

And usually when we talk about free will, that's the thing we're talking about.

I mean, sometimes it's in conjunction with the decision-making process, but for the most part, when we use the term free will, we're talking about this feeling that consciousness, that we have a self, that there's this concrete thing that's separate from brain processing that somehow swoops in and is the cause of our decision or the cause of our next action.

And that is, in large part, if not in its entirety, an illusion.

So conscious will is an illusion, and then we can try to figure out- Pre-will, I would say, is a good shorthand for a process in nature, which is a decision-making process of the brain.

Right.

So this is where our intuitions get challenged.

I've been thinking about some new examples for this just because I talk about it a lot.