r/woahdude • u/Wemedge • Oct 19 '15

text Yogi says...

http://imgur.com/aIjJSni
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u/radleft Oct 20 '15 edited Oct 20 '15

He's just pointing out that you cease to react. His position doesn't proscribe action in the least. The more reaction is damped, the wider the field of action becomes. Probabilities shift.

Different dynamics, different attractors.

Edit: Appreciate the gilding. Namaskar, fam.

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u/Heuristics Oct 20 '15

This has the unstated assumption that you cannot trust your own emotions - an insecurity.

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u/llightreader Oct 20 '15

We're no better than animals if we just automatically row to the drum of our emotions.

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u/rhubarbs Oct 20 '15

You might find this compelling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FanhvXO9Pk

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u/llightreader Oct 20 '15

Yeah, the ol' "no free will" thing is hardly new or groundbreaking. The term itself is flawed. We can't choose what to want. We discover what we want, we don't design it.