Do You have a Choice or Is Everything Incidental?

Do you think, "Of course I have a choice. I am making choices each and every day. Otherwise, how would I be able to run my life?" Or are you part of the fraction that says, no, there is no choice, everything just happens?
In today’s video, we are going to look more closely into choices and whether they are made or not.
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[@hansenmarc]

The more I look into theories of consciousness, the more I like model-based approaches. It appears that our minds build very simplistic models of reality in order to conserve resources and to increase applicability, i.e., the amount of reality that we have an explanation for. Donald Hoffman has done a lot of research on this approach and how it evolved to maximize a fitness function even at the cost of inaccurate representations of reality.
Humans experience the universe and create a model of a self that is having those experiences. This model of a self is useful for explaining, understanding, and predicting how and why we do things and by extension how other people and societies act. However, it’s this separate self that seems to be in control of our thoughts and bodies and sits in our heads like a small homunculus somewhere behind our eyes that is illusory. It’s merely a construct.
The more I learn, the more I think that everything we do is driven entirely by our subconscious and consciousness exists only to provide our subconscious with a predictive and introspective model of our own body and actions and how others interact with it. Somehow that model of a self in charge of our body must have provided a reproductive advantage to early hominids. Maybe because they could explain their behavior even if those explanations were completely inaccurate. This viewpoint is also supported by Gazzaniga’s split brain experiments where the left hemisphere of the brain comes up with explanations for what the body is doing even if those explanations are completely wrong. For example, show a message to the right hemisphere asking the person to leave the room and the left hemisphere will explain that the subject suddenly decided to go into the hall and get a soda from the vending machine.

[@karunayoungs5917]

Great that you started a UA-cam channel!

[@emilyzena7070]

I am appreciating your videos very much but please is it possible to make sound quality better? I am struggling to make out words clearly. Thank you