Are You Free? || Acharya Prashant

Full video: For those who want freedom || Acharya Prashant, International Psychology Summit (2023)

Transcript

00:00predict yourself the more you see how predictable you are the more you see how

00:05mechanical you are because only machines can be predicted if you can predict your

00:09behavior your reactions in advance then you know that you are just a lump of

00:14chemicals hormones circuits and that's not what consciousness is consciousness

00:20is supposed to be free right an electric circuit is not free chemical reactions

00:25are not free sodium and potassium cannot decide whether to react with water

00:29they are constrained to react do you want to be just a chemical a chemical that

00:34is obliged to act in certain ways no there is freedom then predict yourself

00:39and then defy the prediction so I was supposed to be angry I didn't get angry

00:441 0 self 1 hormones 0 so keep the score so the hormones are imbalanced I am not

00:54imbalanced I'm not my body so how can I be the hormones

00:59you