Do you have free will? No. Have you ever decided to decide something? Our "will" comes from an unobservable place.
But the real question, are we deterministic superdominoes six billion (or however many) years old? ALSO NO. You have four leverage points as a consciousness piloting a meat mecha.
>Free won't
Have you ever been in a situation where your mind thought of a joke and you said to yourself, "This is not the time"? That's a function of your prefrontal cortex, and I call it "free won't". Your uncontrollable will makes suggestions all the time but you can turn them down. You have veto power in the moment... unless you've had too much to drink, or were born a nigger. This is all you have when you're "on the spot" in the moment.
>Free speech
The words you choose, especially the less common ones, have a neurolinguistic feedback principle at work. Word choice affects the emotional qualities of present and retold experiences. Using the power of free won't, you can catch yourself phrasing things poorly, stop yourself, and rephrase them to be more in tune with your desired state of consciousness. I used to speak aloud the new phrasing, counting five repetitions with my fingers.
>Free association
This is intentional use of Pavlovian responses. You can reward yourself for finishing a run, or put on cologne for sexy times with the missus (and later, apply it when you want her to be horny), or you can meditate on a feeling while your hand makes a peculiar shape, or whatever. It's abusing heuristic association like a built-in cheat code. It works on others, and training your self is no different from training an other.
>Free mind
Your brain knows that whatever you've been doing (whether happy or sad) has kept you alive so far. So by default, it seeks out "more of the same". Angry people subconsciously seek out situations that anger them, and reasons to be angry in neutral situations. You can watch this effect in real time on the highway. So how do we change what our brain is autoseeking? Well you can't change "more of", so you have to change "the same". What you want is more of a different same.
Thing is, your brain can't really tell the difference between real past experience and virtual (imagined) past experience, and there's no difference emotionally - there are no "virtual feelings" in daydreams. Your behavior in daydreams becomes part of your reference pool for habitual situations and actions. Daydreaming daily about certain kinds of situations and your kinds of responses to those situations will help reprogram your "uncontrollable" will and your subconscious attraction to certain situations.
They did an old study where participants were tested on their basketball free throw abilities. Then the participants were split in three groups. One group did nothing. Another went to a hoop and shot 20 free throws a day. The final group sat in a comfy chair and imagined shooting 20 free throws a day. A month later they were tested again. Who improved most?
Obviously, the people who sat in a comfy chair and preloaded extra memories of successful free throws. It wasn't even close. This is the mundane side of "the law of attraction".
There's a whole extra thing for those who've unlocked their spiritual oddness, this is just the materialistic side. I'm not going to sit here and explain how consciousness can pre-observe future phenomena and collapse the superposition of possibility into definable and experiencable forms; I already did my effortpoast today.
But the real question, are we deterministic superdominoes six billion (or however many) years old? ALSO NO. You have four leverage points as a consciousness piloting a meat mecha.
>Free won't
Have you ever been in a situation where your mind thought of a joke and you said to yourself, "This is not the time"? That's a function of your prefrontal cortex, and I call it "free won't". Your uncontrollable will makes suggestions all the time but you can turn them down. You have veto power in the moment... unless you've had too much to drink, or were born a nigger. This is all you have when you're "on the spot" in the moment.
>Free speech
The words you choose, especially the less common ones, have a neurolinguistic feedback principle at work. Word choice affects the emotional qualities of present and retold experiences. Using the power of free won't, you can catch yourself phrasing things poorly, stop yourself, and rephrase them to be more in tune with your desired state of consciousness. I used to speak aloud the new phrasing, counting five repetitions with my fingers.
>Free association
This is intentional use of Pavlovian responses. You can reward yourself for finishing a run, or put on cologne for sexy times with the missus (and later, apply it when you want her to be horny), or you can meditate on a feeling while your hand makes a peculiar shape, or whatever. It's abusing heuristic association like a built-in cheat code. It works on others, and training your self is no different from training an other.
>Free mind
Your brain knows that whatever you've been doing (whether happy or sad) has kept you alive so far. So by default, it seeks out "more of the same". Angry people subconsciously seek out situations that anger them, and reasons to be angry in neutral situations. You can watch this effect in real time on the highway. So how do we change what our brain is autoseeking? Well you can't change "more of", so you have to change "the same". What you want is more of a different same.
Thing is, your brain can't really tell the difference between real past experience and virtual (imagined) past experience, and there's no difference emotionally - there are no "virtual feelings" in daydreams. Your behavior in daydreams becomes part of your reference pool for habitual situations and actions. Daydreaming daily about certain kinds of situations and your kinds of responses to those situations will help reprogram your "uncontrollable" will and your subconscious attraction to certain situations.
They did an old study where participants were tested on their basketball free throw abilities. Then the participants were split in three groups. One group did nothing. Another went to a hoop and shot 20 free throws a day. The final group sat in a comfy chair and imagined shooting 20 free throws a day. A month later they were tested again. Who improved most?
Obviously, the people who sat in a comfy chair and preloaded extra memories of successful free throws. It wasn't even close. This is the mundane side of "the law of attraction".
There's a whole extra thing for those who've unlocked their spiritual oddness, this is just the materialistic side. I'm not going to sit here and explain how consciousness can pre-observe future phenomena and collapse the superposition of possibility into definable and experiencable forms; I already did my effortpoast today.