Near as I can tell, the human psyche is an open ended recursive system, You keep repeating yourself, and it mutates as it goes since it is open ended, and not a closed system. I suspect the freedom part happens because the recursivity is massive, and consciousness can variably attach itself to different parts of the recursive matrix. One can "resist" one thing (say, eating too much chocolate) not because one is choosing that action, "free will" then interrupting routine and automaticity, but that action is itself simply another aspect of the recursive whole (eg, the learned habit of serial selective dieting) that consciousness identifies with, as opposed to the thing resisted, with which it is not.
Of course the question is, even if the human psyche is a recursive whole, a cylcotron of simple learned habits mutating over time, why does consciousness attach itself to one recursive avenue (eg, serial dieting) but not attach itself to -- ie, identify with -- another (eg, chocolate eating)?
No. I just think it's more random than selected. The system just has to repeat, and can mutate, but it must repeat. So, why we identify with one tredn in our psyche and not another, is just a dice roll, and I would guess it has to do with the AoE mem blur that gets cast every night when we sleep and the system re-sorts the recursive articles and we in many ways start all over again the next day. The "stress" of conscious life is there as a constant, not because without consciousness there would be no life, but because life does not really need conscious direction much, and the stress is just this drive to be conscious, which is more or less the same, if you notice, whether you are "willing" something easy or hard.
but i do think it mainly is the aoe mem blur that's the culprit here. One can never truly be free as long as one still falls asleep.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
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