Free will and consciousness

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3. We learn over time, based on how are brains are made and our environment.

We're not hard wired. At any given moment our brains automatically decide for us, but our brains change.

In fact, we couldn't learn without feelings. The amount of information we have now in our brains (as adults, or younger) far exceeds the amount of information in our DNA. That is because we can learn and change. This is made possible with feelings in consciousness.

We automatically learn and remember things that cause us to experience a greater impression on our brains. The strength of impression is based on the strength of the feelings experience. Boring crap that we experience most moments of our lives will not be saved in long-term memory. There has to be some criteria on what our brains save and learn from.

So this same function of the brain that allows us to learn and remember (and change) - feelings in consciousness - also forces our brains to think, do, choose, and act as one unit. We would be in a coma-like state without feelings, since feelings are our only driving force.

Our brains work through a very subtle feelings-driven process, with the great majority of what is happening in the brain being completely outside of consciousness. This makes it very difficult to explain how we think and where our thoughts come from.