00:00 Someone comes and says, "Oh, you are ugly."
00:01 The thing is, you did not even choose to be pretty.
00:04 How can you choose to be ugly?
00:06 Nobody chooses her color.
00:07 Nobody chooses her height.
00:09 Even the things where we think we have exercised a choice,
00:13 that choice is a greatly influenced choice, is it not?
00:16 - Yes, sir.
00:17 - Think of the way people, for example, choose their college
00:21 or choose their job or choose their partners.
00:24 Are these free choices?
00:26 These are not free choices.
00:27 Though we say, "I chose," but I never really choose.
00:31 Things just happen.
00:32 Water falls over sodium.
00:34 Does sodium choose to react?
00:35 The explosion just happens.
00:37 And sodium is more honest than human beings,
00:40 in the sense that sodium does not have an agency that claims, "I did that."
00:45 But when it comes to human beings,
00:46 we all have a central fictitious agency that says, "I did that."
00:51 Whereas events happen just in the way water happens to sodium.
00:55 That's the way our life events take place.
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