Yes. I think that's part of the point. Both the unconscious part and the conscious part are one and the same. The question I wanted to ask, and of which I'm going to do a follow-up, is: if most of what you think was given to you by circumstance and by the reactions to the past on your body's part, isn't it a bit logical to think about these impulses more as forces than as absolute laws that cannot be molded and played with?
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Well I think that depends on in which cases our unconscious part is triggered. I think this part is more getting triggered when decision making is not very difficult or things we somehow de-prioritize in our daily lives. Mostly because of the repetitiveness of these tasks maybe.
Of course I don’t know this scientifically :) but I think this unconscious part is not in place for things, events, actions having a higher importance. That’s why we still can be considered free in our actions. We still have the responsibility of our actions. Even if these actions are strongly influenced by past experiences.
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That was precisely the point I wanted to make :) I wanted to approach certain decisions we take while being influenced by these impulses. Certain decisions that we decide are absolutely correct, but depending on the culture and circumstance, what is going to be considered "correct" is highly predictable. This is mostly traditions, customs, morals and certain behaviors that are simply said to be genetic or due to "the weather".
Haha yes! And here it is important to be able to “think outside the box”. You can be raised in within a certain culture, geographical region, religion but the potential to think in a more generic way is in each person I believe.
Still, maybe we live in a very “automated” way in our own world and never have a need to think about our decisions from a different perspective. But at a certain moment you can receive some “signals” to consider alternative decisions. Most people ignore these “signals” and keep doing what they used to do, but it is very important to stand still in those moments and think deeply about the decisions you are about to make. Difficult to explain and maybe easier to say this than actually doing it :)
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I might address some of your doubts tomorrow. I'll be reading this when I make the continuation. We'll see what I end up doing. Thank you for your observations. They are really valuable.
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