DRFseven

Yes, it is impossible to choose something of which we have no awareness. And it is impossible to have an awareness of something of which we have no experience. So nothing you can think is free of the implications of experience.



Suicide is not a free act at all. First of all, an individual must understand what suicide is and how to go about it before attempting it. This entails the automatic enlistment of all applicable biases in "suicide neural groups", by the encodement of attached emotions as well as those of other associated experiences. Not free at all. All bound up.



No reward? The reward is in satifying the desire, of course. Dopamine to the rescue! What do we always learn is rewarding? Satisfaction of desire. From our first squalling breath we are reward-seeking organisms and will remain so for the duration of our lives. If the MOST rewarding thing is sticking the hand in a flame, then, by god, we will do it. Far from free agents, we are literally slaves of desire.