The choices we make in our everyday life shape us and affect those around us in a way we will never fully understand and the thing is, we do them on a daily basis without even realizing it. Forgiving a loved one for a mistake they made, choosing to open the door for a stranger out of courtesy, feeding a strayed cat or even choosing to put deodorant on. The butterfly effect or chaos theory explains this perfectly, even the smallest of actions, such as a butterfly flapping her wings in Russia might cause a hurricane in France, thus the importance of knowing why we take certain choices and behave the way we do. But are we the masters of our own fate or are we influenced by various factors such as past experience, social standards or even reality
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For instance, you wake up everyday wear your clothes, brush your teeth, go to work but you do so while on auto-pilot mode, Daniel Kahneman tries to explain this in his book: Thinking fast and slow. He says that our brains are consisted of 2 systems, one that thinks fast and another that thinks slow. And I quote “System 1 operates automatically, intuitively, involuntary, and effortlessly—like when we drive, read an angry facial expression, or recall our age. System 2 requires slowing down, deliberating, solving problems, reasoning, computing, focusing, concentrating, considering other data, and not jumping to quick conclusion.” (Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and slow). We are most of the time thinking fast because thinking slow consumes a lot of energy. Then we don’t have have free will when system 1 is operating but we do when system two is, right? Neuroscientist beg to differ, biologically speaking, your brain is responsible for every decision you take in your life, you are only conscious of the decisions after your brain takes them. And that’s more frightening than any horror movie you have ever watched.
For instance, you wake up everyday wear your clothes, brush your teeth, go to work but you do so while on auto-pilot mode, Daniel Kahneman tries to explain this in his book: Thinking fast and slow. He says that our brains are consisted of 2 systems, one that thinks fast and another that thinks slow. And I quote “System 1 operates automatically, intuitively, involuntary, and effortlessly—like when we drive, read an angry facial expression, or recall our age. System 2 requires slowing down, deliberating, solving problems, reasoning, computing, focusing, concentrating, considering other data, and not jumping to quick conclusion.” (Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and slow). We are most of the time thinking fast because thinking slow consumes a lot of energy. Then we don’t have have free will when system 1 is operating but we do when system two is, right? Neuroscientist beg to differ, biologically speaking, your brain is responsible for every decision you take in your life, you are only conscious of the decisions after your brain takes them. And that’s more frightening than any horror movie you have ever watched.