April 2018 Q & A
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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The Phenomenological Reality of Voluntary Choice and Effort
consciousness looks to me like a mechanism that deals with potential before it's transformed into actuality. And I think consciousness is also the faculty, so to speak, or a manifestation of the faculty that enables us to pre-program deterministic actions. So phenomenologically it seems clear that we have free choice and it isn't obvious to me why we have consciousness if free choice isn't real.
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