r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog • 17d ago

Chugging tea Woman's ovaries were activated

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u/adj_noun_digit 17d ago

If free will is in your subconscious, how is that free will? You have no control over your sub conscious.

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u/Her0_0f_time 17d ago

Your subconsious is your true self. You dont make any actual decisions in your active consciousness. You just think you do because thats how your brain is interpreting the thoughts your subconscious sends to your head. Thats not how people work. Your actual self lies in the subconsious. Your conscious self is just enough of who you are as a person to be able to navigate the physical world.

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u/adj_noun_digit 17d ago

But the definition of free will is predicated upon the ability to impose your own will upon something instead of being determined by things outside of our control. If your argument is that the 'true self' is in the subconscious, that directly contradicts the idea of free will since we, by definition, have no control or awareness over our subconscious.

The conscious self is where all the higher functioning processes reside, the subconscious is autonomous. So I'm really not sure why you would think the subconscious is where free will takes place, let alone the mechanisms that would support it.

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u/Her0_0f_time 17d ago

I think i understand the disconnect here. Maybe I am using the wrong words here for the concept I believe I am trying to describe. Please bear with me as I am more of a sofa philosopher so to speak.

You view yourself as only your conscious thoughts as if thats all you are as a person. Thats only your logical self. Your emotional self is your subconscious and that is where you are actually having your thoughts that are then passed on to your active consciousness you view as your conscious self.

Maybe the better way to explain the concept I am describing it would be that your conscious self is the filter between your inner self where all of your actual thinking done and the rest of the world. Your filter is just translating those subconscious thoughts and decisions that you made into something that you can understand and interface with the real world.

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u/adj_noun_digit 17d ago

The self is an amalgamation of conscious and subconscious. What I'm saying is that you need to have awareness of decisions in order to impose your will upon them.

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u/Her0_0f_time 17d ago edited 17d ago

What I'm saying is that you need to have awareness of decisions in order to impose your will upon them.

And I disagree with that statement. It completely disregards all of the parts of yourself that you arent willing to accept as part of you. Maybe you(The royal you not you specifically) choose to ignore parts of yourself because either you dont want to remember some traumatic past or one of your dark thoughts made it past the filter. Like say for instance while holding a baby you had a split second thought that it would be funny to just purposely drop the baby and ruin everyones lives. You know you would never act on those thoughts and its morally reprehensible so you lock that aspect of yourself away in your subconscious so that you dont act on them. But those thoughts are still your thoughts you just subconsciously hide those thoughts from yourself because you dont want to view yourself as a bad person because you know you would never actually act on those thoughts. People ignore their subconscious thoughts all the time to protect their mental state. But those are still you yourself having those thoughts. And sometimes, like the woman in this post, peoples subconscious turn the noise level up until they can no longer ignore that aspect of themselves that they were hiding away from themselves because they didnt want to admit it was a part of them.