Originally Posted by
CraigT
Great posts, Marisa!
I've spent a great deal of time pondering the implications of much of this on our 'free will'.
Given that our conscious is always acting somewhat after the event, that is to say, working only with material the sub-conscious has already had a go at, it could be said that the only free will we have is to decide what we think about what we've just done.
Retraining the subconscious to deal with things differently gives us some possibility of changing future outcomes, but it is only after the new 'program' has been tried that we will know if it leads to the hoped-for results.
Our 'animal' lives in the now, our 'sentience' is a master of hindsight.
Cheers,
Craig