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#326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

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The Importance of Brain Processing in Action

There is a difference between voluntary and involuntary behavior so of course we have reflexes. There's different brain processing in action. When I make a decision about water or tea, then there is you know if my behavior is forced from the outside, or if I have a brain tumor that's causing me to make certain decisions Or feel certain feelings. At bottom it's all brain processing and behavior. But the reason why certain actions feel will there's a good reason why it feels that way. And it's to distinguish our own self generated behavior based on thinking which can be very complex. So even when we intellectually understand that everything we're feelingEverything we're doing is based on our brain processing and

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