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I have a paradoxical question to bother you all with.

Do you control your brain. Or does your brain control you?

Are we the ones making conscious decisions or are we all simple responding to instinctive stimuli, genetically ingrained in our thought processes?

But I love this question, simply because it is genuinely impossible for us to come up with a viable answer. There's no proof that our personality dominates our automatic reactions because humans are such delusional creatures, such arrogant beasts that we even named ourselves "Wise" monkeys, racial arrogance surpasses even cats, but since we have this... Insanity, no matter what happens to us, we WILL, either consciously, socially or subconsciously convince ourselves that it was our idea to begin with. Whether our reasoning is that, logically, we would come up with the answer, or that society would impose a decision on us that was actually an instinctive reaction to "blend with the herd" which, although that isn't the correct terminology, is actually a documented phenomenon, people adopt the appearance and habits of the most successful herd member, with animals we call it learning, with society its called fashion and has the opposite effect to learning.

So, what is your opinion on this subject? I am genuinely curious.

Also, if you found this interesting then watch the Ricky Gervais show, it's hilarious but it's where I got this idea.