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Why do we want what we want? One day we discover a new hole that wasn’t there before, a gap we need to fill, a want. It becomes a need we must satisfy. I don’t mean wanting water when one is thirsty, but the other things we want, the ones that look like choices.
What fascinates me is not that our unconscious strongly influences ‘our’ choices, or that we even feel that we are capable of choosing. What fascinates me the most is that the perception of free will is a trait that has been positively
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Title Wanting and waiting
Why do we want what we want? One day we discover a new hole that wasn’t there before, a gap we need to fill, a want. It becomes a need we must satisfy. I don’t mean wanting water when one is thirsty, but the other things we want, the ones that look like choices.
What fascinates me is not that our unconscious strongly influences ‘our’ choices, or that we even feel that we are capable of choosing. What fascinates me the most is that the perception of free will is a trait that has been positively
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Tags waiting and here, unconscious, free will, wanting
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Entry date Sep 25, 2024, 6:54 AM UTC
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