(…)Like the wallaby we have thousands, if not millions, of wired-in
predilections for various actions and choices. I don’t know about wallaby
minds, but we humans think we are making all our decisions to act consciously
and willfully. We all feel we are wonderfully unified, coherent mental machines
and that our underlying brain structure must somehow reflect this overpowering
sense we all possess. It doesn’t. Again, no central command center keeps all
other brain systems hopping to the instructions of a five-star general. The
brain has millions of local processors making important decisions.
(…)The lingering conviction that
we humans have a “self” making all the decisions about our actions is not
dampened. It is a powerful and overwhelming illusion that is almost impossible
to shake. (…)
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