Epistemic status: another highly-speculative piece on a highly-speculative topic. One common way modern people often think about their self awareness is a bit like this. We tend to acknowledge that there’s a lot of subconscious processing happening in ourselves that we’re not aware of and cannot influence (a basic example would be some bodily function like pumping blood), but then there’s this self-aware part that can make conscious decisions and perform actions based on those decisions. Some who are familiar with a bit of neuroscience research concede some more ground to the subconscious part — they acknowledge that a lot of what we would consider to be intellectual choice making actually happens unconsciously and we don’t have much control over it.
Adversarial free will hypothesis
Adversarial free will hypothesis
Adversarial free will hypothesis
Epistemic status: another highly-speculative piece on a highly-speculative topic. One common way modern people often think about their self awareness is a bit like this. We tend to acknowledge that there’s a lot of subconscious processing happening in ourselves that we’re not aware of and cannot influence (a basic example would be some bodily function like pumping blood), but then there’s this self-aware part that can make conscious decisions and perform actions based on those decisions. Some who are familiar with a bit of neuroscience research concede some more ground to the subconscious part — they acknowledge that a lot of what we would consider to be intellectual choice making actually happens unconsciously and we don’t have much control over it.